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Metabolical: The truth about processed food and how it poisons people and the planet
Robert H. Lustig
4.09 AVERAGE
140 reviews for:
Metabolical: The truth about processed food and how it poisons people and the planet
Robert H. Lustig
4.09 AVERAGE
DNF at 41% - started out fine but guy kinda gets lost in the sauce. Will try to pick it back up once I know anything about cellular biology
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Such an interesting book. A deep-dive into how various foods are treated by our bodies and how our bodies react to them.
DNF
I mostly read this book to identify what people are talking about when they say “processed food” because all food basically is processed in some way ie cooking it. And he answered that question, although I had to skip ahead to chapters 18-22 with some tidbits hidden in the other chapters too.
Good research and sources and all that. I’m just officially committed to being one of the 88% of Americans with metabolic syndrome. I limit added sugar and I get my servings of veggies/fiber per day. I just can’t be bothered to cut processed food out when it’s the majority of our grocery store. I personally can’t subsist on grass fed chicken and raw veggies alone. In the event that I start baking my own bread from freshly ground wheat and start a veg garden in a toxin-free soil plot, I’ll update my comment. Until then, I will be eating granola and pre-made spaghetti sauce and the occasional frozen dinner.
All that has no bearing on the book though, he answered my questions with research and that’s great!
I mostly read this book to identify what people are talking about when they say “processed food” because all food basically is processed in some way ie cooking it. And he answered that question, although I had to skip ahead to chapters 18-22 with some tidbits hidden in the other chapters too.
Good research and sources and all that. I’m just officially committed to being one of the 88% of Americans with metabolic syndrome. I limit added sugar and I get my servings of veggies/fiber per day. I just can’t be bothered to cut processed food out when it’s the majority of our grocery store. I personally can’t subsist on grass fed chicken and raw veggies alone. In the event that I start baking my own bread from freshly ground wheat and start a veg garden in a toxin-free soil plot, I’ll update my comment. Until then, I will be eating granola and pre-made spaghetti sauce and the occasional frozen dinner.
All that has no bearing on the book though, he answered my questions with research and that’s great!
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
I need to start reviewing the books on nutrition before I mix them completely! This one is so far the best of the lot. Robert H. Lustig is a medical doctor and he has been working with overweight children for decades. This book is a follow up and expansion of his lecture “sugar: the bitter truth” that has been viewed more than 25 million times on YouTube.
I remember being told that sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. It’s a lie. The idea that eating fat causes heart disease because of increased LDL cholesterol is also a lie. It’s the fructose in our diet that does that, which the author explains in detail.
The food industry has avoided being lumped together with the tobacco industry, but both are equally detrimental to our health. The food industry adds sugar to everything, knowing full well that it is highly addictive. Nothing is said about fiber being an essential nutrient - because you can’t add it to ultra processed food. It doesn’t take well to being frozen.
We also drink a high number of calories now. Coca Cola
adds salt (sodium) to make us want more and be thirstier. There’s so much sugar that we don’t notice.
The author is angry. I guess I would be too, in his line of work. I love his snarky humor. Change your life, read the book!
I had several WTF moments and it felt like the fork literally stopped on its way to my mouth. I have now cut out all ultra-processed foods from my diet. Not hard, because I can afford it and there wasn’t much left. I’ve never had much of a sweet tooth, but when I started looking at what I was getting through drinks - juice and tea, for example, I was shocked. Orange juice is just as unhealthy as soft drinks. So, now I drink only water and milk and do not sweeten my caffeine. I dropped my morning fruit tea. No added sugar, but naturally sweet. Poison in the form of fructose. Chronic fructose share 8 out of the 12 metabolic problems as chronic alcohol. Yikes. I’ve suffered three days of headaches coming off my sugar addiction. I am less hungry and hangry, my weight is dropping by the day and my skin is better. It’s not yet been an entire week.
Of course I am going to have cake and dessert at some point, I don’t want to make a nuisance of myself. I will never drink Coke again though.
To repeat: you’ve been duped. The fat epidemic is caused by the sugar in our diet. The science is out there, the food industry doesn’t want us to look that way.
I remember being told that sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. It’s a lie. The idea that eating fat causes heart disease because of increased LDL cholesterol is also a lie. It’s the fructose in our diet that does that, which the author explains in detail.
The food industry has avoided being lumped together with the tobacco industry, but both are equally detrimental to our health. The food industry adds sugar to everything, knowing full well that it is highly addictive. Nothing is said about fiber being an essential nutrient - because you can’t add it to ultra processed food. It doesn’t take well to being frozen.
We also drink a high number of calories now. Coca Cola
adds salt (sodium) to make us want more and be thirstier. There’s so much sugar that we don’t notice.
The author is angry. I guess I would be too, in his line of work. I love his snarky humor. Change your life, read the book!
I had several WTF moments and it felt like the fork literally stopped on its way to my mouth. I have now cut out all ultra-processed foods from my diet. Not hard, because I can afford it and there wasn’t much left. I’ve never had much of a sweet tooth, but when I started looking at what I was getting through drinks - juice and tea, for example, I was shocked. Orange juice is just as unhealthy as soft drinks. So, now I drink only water and milk and do not sweeten my caffeine. I dropped my morning fruit tea. No added sugar, but naturally sweet. Poison in the form of fructose. Chronic fructose share 8 out of the 12 metabolic problems as chronic alcohol. Yikes. I’ve suffered three days of headaches coming off my sugar addiction. I am less hungry and hangry, my weight is dropping by the day and my skin is better. It’s not yet been an entire week.
Of course I am going to have cake and dessert at some point, I don’t want to make a nuisance of myself. I will never drink Coke again though.
To repeat: you’ve been duped. The fat epidemic is caused by the sugar in our diet. The science is out there, the food industry doesn’t want us to look that way.
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Eye-opening read and somewhat horrifying. We all need to quit added sugar! I removed a star because sometimes the tone felt shrill or hyperbolic, but honestly I think everyone should read this, especially because "with a bad sweet tooth" like me.