Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

Introduction: Time to Think Outside the Box

Part I. The Greatest Story Ever Sold

1. A Fallacy of Biblical Proportion

2. A Calorie Is a Calorie—or Is It?

3. Personal Responsibility versus the Obese Six-Month-Old

Part II. To Eat or Not to Eat? That’s Not the Question

4. Gluttony and Sloth—Behaviors Driven by Hormones

5. Food Addiction—Fact or Fallacy

6. Stress and “Comfort Food”

Part III. “Chewing” the Fat

7. The Birth, Care, and Feeding of a Fat Cell

8. The Difference Between “Fat” and “Sick”

9. Metabolic Syndrome: The New Scourge

Part IV. The “Real” Toxic Environment

10. The Omnivore’s Curse: Low Fat versus Low Carb

11. Fructose—The “Toxin”

12. Fiber—Half the Antidote

13. Exercise—The Other Half of the Antidote

14. Micronutrients: Home Run or Hyperbole?

15. Environmental “Obesogens”

16. The “Empire” Strikes Back: Response of the Food Industry

Part V. The Personal Solution

17. Altering Your Food Environment

18. Altering Your Hormonal Environment

19. Last Resorts: When Altering Your Environment Isn’t Enough

Part VI. The Public Health Solution

20. The “Nanny State”: Personal versus Societal Responsibility

21. What Hath Government Wrought?

22. A Call for Global Sugar Reduction

Epilogue: Not a Top-Down but a Bottom-Up Movement

Acknowledgments