Fat chance : beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease
Record details
- ISBN: 9780142180433 (trade pbk.) :
- ISBN: 159463100X (hc.)
- ISBN: 9781594631009 (hc.) :
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Physical Description:
xv, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Hudson Street Press ; Plume Book, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | A fallacy of biblical proportion -- A calorie is a calorie : or is it? -- Personal responsibility versus the obese six-month-old -- Gluttony and sloth : behaviors driven by hormones -- Food addiction : fact or fallacy -- Stress and "comfort food" -- The birth, care, and feeding of a fat cell -- The difference between "fat" and "sick" -- Metabolic syndrome : the new scourge -- The omnivore's curse : low fat versus low carb -- Fructose : the "toxin" -- Fiber : half the antidote -- Exercise : the other half of the antidote -- Micronutrients : home run or hyperbole? -- Environmental "obesogens" -- The "empire" strikes back : response of the food industry -- Altering your food environment -- Altering your hormonal environment -- Last resorts : when altering your environment isn't enough -- The "nanny state" : personal versus societal responsibility -- What hath government wrought? -- A call for global sugar reduction -- Epilogue: not a top-down but a bottom-up movement. |
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Subject: | Obesity -- United States Food habits -- United States Food industry and trade -- United States |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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Interurban Library | GT 2869 L873 2014 (Text) | 26040003243231 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |