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Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease, endocrinologist and obesity doc robert lustig deconstructs the mythology of fat. With more than 100 recipes as well as meal plans, nutritional analyses, shopping lists, and food swaps, he shows us easy ways to drastically reduce sugar and increase fiber to lose weight and regain health both for ourselves and for our families. Read it and you will come to understand why he says a calorie is not a calorie and not all calories are equal. It takes key points of the chapters leaving most of the discussion and not so key points.
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