By Robert Lustig. Some interesting points:
– Thin people are not in control of their eating any more than fat people are and they can and do “flip” any time.
– The industrial global diet is ubiquitous and in demand, which means more obesity is on the way worldwide.
– Fructose as the “number one cause of chronic metabolic disease. ” (This claim seems a little extreme.)
– Foods that cause an insulin spike (such as fructose) may block leptin signaling and cause a starvation signal in the brain, causing overeating.
– Exercise is essentially useless for weight loss but increases overall health.
The author is not hopeful about the situation but the last part of the book offers some useful ideas including buying screen time with exercise. Example: being active for one hour buys you three hours of internet/phone/video games.
Fun fact: today I learned that the person on Instagram with the username Cunt_Destroyer is a teenage girl ! Weird.
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