Lustig Robert H. - The fat chance cookbook : more than 100 recipes ready in under 30 minutes to help you lose the sugar and the weight

H ow many times have you had, or heard, these conversations?

I know Im carrying extra weight, but I just cant lose it.

Or:

I lost twenty pounds last year, but Ive gained it all back and then some.

Or:

My doctor just told me that if I dont watch my diet and start exercising, Im on my way to developing diabetes.

This cookbook has been written to end those conversations. It will teach you to reorient your food life and your life in general. It will help you feel better, live healthier, be more productive, andbelieve it or notlose 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.

Drafted with my dear friend, chef Cindy Gershen, these dishes 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 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. And here is a huge plus: most of them can be made in less than thirty minutes of active cooking time.

These recipes have not been pulled out of thin air. They are based on the science I outlined in my first book about the obesity and diabetes pandemics, Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease. They have been drawn from the more than thirty years of experience that Cindy has had as a successful restaurateur and caterer in the San Francisco Bay Area, where we both live.

WHY THIS COOKBOOK?

Frankly, you need this cookbook, no matter what your weight. Its 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 I explain more fully in Fat Chance, 40 percent of normal-weight Americans suffer from the same diseases as the obese: type 2 diabetes, lipid disorders, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and dementia. Being thin or normal weight is not a Get Out of Jail Free card.

This affects all of us, doctors included. For instance, my friend, colleague, and noted surgeon turned nutrition scientist Dr. Peter Attia discovered that he was prediabetic, even though he is young, slender, and exercises three or four hours a day. Dr. Attia recounted his personal experience with prediabetes in a TEDMED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_attia_what_if_we_re_wrong_about_diabetes.html. He lost forty pounds and reversed his prediabetes with improvements in his diet.