FAT CHANCE COOKBOOK

While ostensibly a cookbook (one filled with great recipes) the information in this book will teach you to re-orient your food life, and your life in general.

While ostensibly a cookbook (one filled with great recipes) the information in this book will teach you to re-orient your food life, and your life in general. This will help you feel better, live healthier, be more productive, and—believe it or not—lose weight without dieting. You will be able to do this by taking advantage of the hormones that control energy balance and “satiety,” the feeling of being full. The dishes in the FAT CHANCE COOKBOOK (created by noted San Francisco chef Cindy Gershen) are down-to-earth, decidedly easy, and delicious. The recipes either minimize or eliminate the ingredients that do damage to our bodies and our health: fructose (the sweet molecule that makes up of refined sugar); refined carbohydrates; and processed (fiberless) foods of all kinds. They emphasize ingredients that will help your body recalibrate how it uses energy and stores fat: whole grains, whole vegetables (peels and all!), fiber, Omega-3 fatty acids, and high-quality protein. Readers need this cookbook, no matter what their weight. It's not just because the way most of us are eating today is making us fat. Even more alarming, the “Industrial Global Diet” is making us seriously ill. As Dr. Lustig explains more fully in Fat Chance, 40% of normal-weight people suffer from the same diseases as the obese: Type 2 diabetes, lipid disorders, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and dementia. Dr. Lustig strongly believes that change will not come from the food and diet companies. It will not come from restaurants or supermarkets. Families all over the world will drive this change, cooking together in their own kitchens. FAT CHANCE COOKBOOK is part of this food revolution and is sure to find a strongly receptive readership. Robert H. Lustig, M.D has spent the past sixteen years treating childhood obesity and studying the effects of sugar on the central nervous system and metabolism. He is the Director of the UCSF Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program and also a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society.