| Introduction: Time to Think Outside the Box |
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Part I The Greatest Story Ever Sold |
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1 A Fallacy of Biblical Proportion |
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2 A Calorie Is a Calorie-or Is It? |
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9 | (13) |
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3 Personal Responsibility versus the Obese Six-Month-Old |
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22 | (11) |
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Part II To Eat or Not to Eat? That's Not the Question |
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4 Gluttony and Sloth-Behaviors Driven by Hormones |
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33 | (15) |
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5 Food Addiction-Fact or Fallacy |
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48 | (16) |
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6 Stress and "Comfort Food" |
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64 | (11) |
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Part III "Chewing" the Fat |
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7 The Birth, Care, and Feeding of a Fat Cell |
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75 | (10) |
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8 The Difference Between "Fat" and "Sick" |
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85 | (8) |
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9 Metabolic Syndrome: The New Scourge |
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93 | (12) |
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Part IV The "Real" Toxic Environment |
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10 The Omnivore's Curse: Low Fat versus Low Carb |
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105 | (12) |
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117 | (13) |
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12 Fiber-Half the Antidote |
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130 | (9) |
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13 Exercise-The Other Half of the Antidote |
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139 | (11) |
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14 Micronutrients: Home Run or Hyperbole? |
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150 | (8) |
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15 Environmental "Obesogens" |
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158 | (8) |
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16 The "Empire" Strikes Back: Response of the Food Industry |
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166 | (17) |
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Part V The Personal Solution |
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17 Altering Your Food Environment |
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183 | (26) |
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18 Altering Your Hormonal Environment |
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209 | (9) |
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19 Last Resorts: When Altering Your Environment Isn't Enough |
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218 | (11) |
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Part VI The Public Health Solution |
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20 The "Nanny State": Personal versus Societal Responsibility |
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229 | (10) |
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21 What Hath Government Wrought? |
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239 | (16) |
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22 A Call for Global Sugar Reduction |
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255 | (17) |
| Epilogue: Not a Top-Down but a Bottom-Up Movement |
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272 | (5) |
| Acknowledgments |
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277 | (4) |
| Notes |
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281 | (22) |
| Glossary |
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303 | (4) |
| Index |
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