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Fat Chance - how a goverment fat mandate turned into a national obesity epidemic

1/20/2017

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Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease by Robert H. Lustig, M.D.

Best Read Cover-to-Cover, Medium Difficulty Read

Fat Chance is a fascinating eye opener about ripple effects of the US government mandate, to remove fat from our diets in the 1970s. The US population has succumb to an epidemic of chronic disease and obesity. Robert references scientific research that support his assertions against sugar and processed foods. Although the concept of eating a whole food diet is nothing new to HEY readers, this book highlights our government's role in the US obesity and chronic disease epidemic and recommends ways we can turn it around. 
​“The question is, why is the USDA in charge of the country’s nutrition anyway? In 2003 the Chicago Tribune reported the comments of Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.)15: “The primary mission of the USDA is, after all, to promote the sale of agricultural products…So putting the USDA in charge of dietary advice is in some respects like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.”
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