Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease by Dr. Robert Lustig - Non Fiction - Paperback

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Details. Condition: Brand New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9780007514144. Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd. Age Range: Adult / Non Fiction. Overview. Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease is Dr Robert Lustig's landmark exposé of how sugar has quietly infiltrated the modern diet and reshaped public health. Drawing on decades of clinical research as a paediatric endocrinologist, Lustig dismantles the myth that "a calorie is a calorie," revealing why sugar itself drives obesity, diabetes and chronic disease. This brand new paperback is essential, myth-busting reading for anyone wanting to understand what is really happening on supermarket shelves and dinner plates.. About the Book. Sugar is toxic, addictive and virtually inescapable in the modern food supply. Dr Robert Lustig argues that our reliance on processed convenience food is directly responsible for soaring rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes and a wide catalogue of related diseases. Fat Chance goes further than typical diet advice, using accessible science to explain why conventional low-fat, calorie-counting wisdom has failed so many people. Lustig shows that not every calorie behaves the same way in the body: sugar calories trigger metabolic and hormonal responses that promote fat storage, insulin resistance and disease, regardless of a person's overall weight. He examines how the food industry has engineered products to maximise sugar content, often disguising sugar under dozens of different names on ingredient labels, and holds governments and regulators to account for policy failures that let this crisis take root. Rather than another restrictive fad diet, Lustig equips readers with the biochemical understanding needed to make genuinely informed food choices - which foods to limit, which hidden sugars to watch for, and how small, sustainable changes can meaningfully reduce disease risk over time. Written in clear, engaging language, Fat Chance has become a touchstone text for nutrition stud