From the Book - First Plume printing.
Introduction. Time to Think Outside the Box
PART 1 : The Greatest Story Ever Sold
A Fallacy of Biblical Proportion
A Calorie Is a Calorie-or Is It?
Personal Responsibility versus the Obese Six-Month-Old
PART 2 : To Eat or Not to Eat? That's Not the Question
Gluttony and Sloth-Behaviors Driven by Hormones
Food Addiction-Fact or Fallacy
Stress and "Comfort Food"
PART 3 : "Chewing" the Fat
The Birth, Care, and Feeding of a Fat Cell
The Difference Between "Fat" and "Sick"
Metabolic Syndrome: The New Scourge
PART 4 : The "Real" Toxic Environment
The Omnivore's Curse: Low Fat versus Low Carb
Exercise-The Other Half of the Antidote
Micronutrients: Home Run or Hyperbole?
Environmental "Obesogens"
The "Empire" Strikes Back: Response of the Food Industry
PART 5 : The Personal Solution
Altering Your Food Environment
Altering Your Hormonal Environment
Last Resorts: When Altering Your Environment Isn't Enough
PART 6 : The Public Health Solution
The "Nanny State": Personal versus Societal Responsibility
What Hath Government Wrought?
A Call for Global Sugar Reduction
Epilogue: Not a Top-Down but a Bottom-Up Movement.