[Food calories affect the body very differently depending on their source and the overall context in which they are consumed. This article explains why not all calories are equal.
Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL, is the editor of the academic volume Obesity Before Birthand the internationally acclaimed author of the popular works Fat Chance, Sugar Has 56 Names, TheFat Chance Cookbook, and The Hacking of the American Mind. He is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics 【儿科】 in the Division of Endocrinology 【內分泌学】and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. He lectures globally and consults with numerous medical societies and policy organizations to improve population health. He lives with his family in San Francisco.
Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine(2021)
The New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.
Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science, challenges our current healthcare paradigm which has gone off the rails under the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government.
You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what the problem is. One of Lustig’s singular gifts as a communicator is his ability to “connect the dots” for the general reader, in order to unpack the scientific data and concepts behind his arguments, as he tells the “real story of food” and “the story of real food.”
Metabolical weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society into a completely new fabric by proving on a scientific basis a series of iconoclastic revelations, among them:
·Medicine for chronic disease treats symptoms, not the disease itself
·You can diagnose your own biochemical profile
·Chronic diseases are not "druggable," but they are "foodable"
·Processed food isn’t just toxic, it’s addictive
·The war between vegan and keto is a false war—the combatants are on the same side
·Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government are on the other side
Making the case that food is the only lever we have to effect biochemical change to improve our health, Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut. He insists that if we do not fix our food and change the way we eat, we will continue to court chronic disease, bankrupt healthcare, and threaten the planet. But there is hope: this book explains what’s needed to fix all three.
如果你不知道问题是什么,你就无法解决问题。勒斯蒂格作为传播者的独特天赋之一是他能够为普通读者“连接过程、因果关系”,以便解开他的论点背后的科学数据和概念,因为他讲述了“食物的真实故事”【“real story of food”】和“真正的食物的故事”【“the story of real food” 】。
Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease(2013)
The landmark New York Timesbest seller that reveals how the explosion of sugar in our diets has created an obesity epidemic, and what we can do to save ourselves. 这本具有里程碑意义的《纽约时报》畅销书揭示了我们饮食中糖分的激增如何导致肥胖流行,以及我们可以采取哪些措施来拯救自己。
Robert Lustig is at the forefront of war against sugar — showing us that it's toxic, it's addictive, and it's everywhere because the food companies want it to be. His 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" has been viewed more than 7 million times. Now, in this landmark book, he documents the science and the politics that have led to personal misery and public crisis — the pandemic of obesity and chronic disease--over the last thirty years.
In the late 1970s, when the U.S. government declared that we needed to get the fat out of our diets, the food industry responded by pumping in more sugar to make food more palatable (and more salable), and by removing the fiber to make food last longer on the shelf. The result has been a perfect storm for our health, disastrously altering our biochemistry to make us think we're starving, drive our eating habits out of our control, and turn us into couch potatoes. If we cannot control how we eat, it's because of the catastrophic excess of sugar in our diet--the resulting hormonal imbalances have rewired our brains!
To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lustig presents strategies we can each use to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress, as well as societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation. With scientific rigor and even a little humor, Fat Chancecategorically proves that "a calorie is not a calorie," and takes that knowledge to its logical conclusion--an overhaul of the global food system.