Fat Chance
by Robert H. Lustig
The book that made Lustig famous: sugar, especially fructose, as a driver of obesity and metabolic disease, with policy proposals. Influential and debated.
Read it if…
you want the sugar argument from its loudest advocate.
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Skip it if…
you want a balanced review of nutrition science.
Try instead: Rethinking Diabetes →
Three things you will actually use
- Sugar is not just empty calories.
- Fiber mitigates.
- Environment drives behavior.
Do this first
Read the chapters on fructose metabolism.
Our verdict
Sugar on trial.
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