Buy now to get the main key ideas from Robert H. Lustig’s Metabolical Dr. Robert Lustig, a leading pediatric neuroendocrinologist, takes aim at America's broken healthcare system in Metabolical (2021). Big Food and Big Pharma put profits over people, and government lets them do it. Chronic diseases are often mismanaged with symptom-treating drugs instead of addressing their true cause: our diet. Modern processed foods are not only toxic but addictive, affecting the heart, brain, overall health, and even the climate. Lustig advocates for real food as the solution to prevent chronic diseases and societal decline.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The United States has the worst health outcomes of any country in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The more money we throw at the problem, the worse it gets, and we haven’t solved it yet. #2 The epidemic of metabolic syndrome affects all ages, races, and creeds, but people are still making money off of it. The price of insulin has tripled in just one decade, and many patients have to choose between paying for their medicine or their food or their electricity. #3 There is a correlation between the number of visits to an HMO doctor and increasing weight gain in the population. The average American’s weight is up, health is down, and wallet is underwater. #4 Modern Medicine is based on the idea that people live longer today than they did a hundred years ago, and that people who are healthy live longer than people who are not. But is that really the case.

Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease (2013) by Robert H. Lustig, MD explores the ill effects of processed foods on the human body. Across the globe, obesity rates have doubled over the last three decades... Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Robert H. Lustig's The Hacking of the American Mind Pediatric neuroendocrinologist Robert H. Lustig argues that society confuses instant gratification with true happiness in The Hacking of the American Mind (2017). The brain’s reward system, manipulated by marketing and technology, prioritizes short-lived pleasure over enduring contentment, leading to addiction, depression, and other health issues. Chronic stress and poor diet make the situation even worse, but understanding the neuroscience behind our emotions can help us protect our well-being. Lustig offers actionable solutions to reclaim our happiness and calls for a shift from materialism to meaningful contributions and healthier lifestyles.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The pursuit of happiness is a myth. We’ve been told that happiness is the goal, but in reality, it is right there in front of us, behind the curtain of our own brain. It matters because it explains the differences between pleasure and happiness, and it explains why so many people are miserable. #2 Pleasure is the visceral readout of activity in a specific brain area known as the reward pathway. It is the motivation for a given reward, and the consummation of that reward as a visceral experience called pleasure. #3 The science of happiness is very complex, and there is not one definition of it. What it means to be happy is different depending on the times in which you live, your religious and cultural affiliations, and likely the language you use. #4 Happiness has been the main stated goal of life since the Renaissance, when people were asked their primary desire. But despite our five-hundred-year gaze on the prize, as a whole we consistently miss the target.

Get the Summary of Jon Gabriel's Visualization for Weight Loss in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Visualization for Weight Loss: The Gabriel Method Guide to Using Your Mind to Transform Your Body" by Jon Gabriel explores the power of visualization as a transformative tool for achieving weight loss and overall well-being. The book draws on the experiences of successful individuals who have used visualization to connect emotionally with their goals before achieving them. Gabriel shares his personal journey and that of his clients, demonstrating how visualization can lead to natural preferences for healthier food choices and improved health outcomes..

Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child’s Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its psychological and social ramifications as well. The eleven original scholarly essays in this collection provide a probing look into how sports—in community athletic leagues, in schools, and even on television—play a major role in how young people view themselves, shape their identities, and imagine their place in society. Rather than focusing exclusively on self-proclaimed jocks, the book considers how the culture of sports affects a wide variety of children and young people, including those who opt out of athletics. Not only does Child’s Play examine disparities across lines of race, class, and gender, it also offers detailed examinations of how various minority populations, from transgender youth to Muslim immigrant girls, have participated in youth sports. Taken together, these essays offer a wide range of approaches to understanding the sociology of youth sports, including data-driven analyses that examine national trends, as well as ethnographic research that gives a voice to individual kids. Child’s Play thus presents a comprehensive and compelling analysis of how, for better and for worse, the culture of sports is integral to the development of young people—and with them, the future of our society.

The New York Times bestselling author of Fat Chance explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet. Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric neuroendocrinologist who has long been on the cutting edge of medicine and science, challenges our current healthcare paradigm which has gone off the rails under the influence of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government. You can’t solve a problem if you don’t know what the problem is. One of Lustig’s singular gifts as a communicator is his ability to “connect the dots” for the general reader, in order to unpack the scientific data and concepts behind his arguments, as he tells the “real story of food” and “the story of real food.” Metabolical weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society into a completely new fabric by proving on a scientific basis a series of iconoclastic revelations, among them: Medicine for chronic disease treats symptoms, not the disease itself You can diagnose your own biochemical profile Chronic diseases are not "druggable," but they are "foodable" Processed food isn’t just toxic, it’s addictive The war between vegan and keto is a false war—the combatants are on the same side Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government are on the other side Making the case that food is the only lever we have to effect biochemical change to improve our health, Lustig explains what to eat based on two novel criteria: protect the liver, and feed the gut. He insists that if we do not fix our food and change the way we eat, we will continue to court chronic disease, bankrupt healthcare, and threaten the planet. But there is hope: this book explains what’s needed to fix all three.

A straightforward, easy-to-follow look at the anatomy, biomechanics, and nutrition of running. Dr. Cucuzzella "aims to improve the fitness and well-being of all, from the uninitiated to beginners to veterans who still have new tricks to learn" (Amby Burfoot, Boston Marathon winner, writer at large for Runner’s World magazine, and author of The Runner’s Guide to the Meaning of Life). Despite our natural ability and our human need to run, each year more than half of all runners suffer injuries. Pain and discouragement inevitably follow. Cucuzzella's book outlines the proven, practical techniques to avoid injury and reach the goal of personal fitness and overall health. With clear drawings and black-and-white photographs, the book provides illustrated exercises designed to teach healthy running, along with simple progressions and a running schedule that shows the reader how to tailor their training regimen to their individual needs and abilities.

This volume investigates the multifaceted SHAPES (socio-historic, artistic, political, and ecological significance) of global disease. It challenges conventional views of infection and transmission by associating epidemics with ideologies and their accompanying institutions. It argues that the physical threat of epidemics is irrevocably linked to culture, economic resources, social class, and power. Epidemics involve both the infected and non-infected, affect the local and global, and they expose control and neglect. This book provides a radical collaborative approach, drawing contributors from closely related and vastly distant fields in the search for innovative ways to address human suffering, and to find real solutions that may determine whether people live or die. Such an approach is needed within an increasingly interconnected world where both pathological diseases and health behaviors are infectious. Experts from fifteen diverse disciplines in the natural sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities present case studies from across the world and time, demonstrating the uniqueness of each disease and epidemic in its place, but also the shared experiences that span human life and death. In order to identify, measure and control epidemics, we must understand epidemics more as long biosocial processes than abrupt events in nature or culture. Such methodology examines the meaning we attach to epidemics, as well as their material reality, and provides a more complete understanding of how epidemics shape and are shaped.