Metabolical & Fat Chance by Dr Robert Lustig - 2 Book Collection Set - Paperback - Sugar, Processed Food & Health

Titles in This Set Metabolical: The Truth About Processed Food and How It Poisons People and the Planet Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease Details Condition: BRAND NEW Format: Paperback ISBN (Metabolical): 9781529350074 ISBN (Fat Chance): 9780007514144 Publisher (Metabolical): Yellow Kite (Hodder & Stoughton) Publisher (Fat Chance): Fourth Estate Age Range: Adult / General Readership Overview This brand-new paperback set pairs Dr Robert Lustig's two most influential nutrition titles: Metabolical and Fat Chance. Together they trace his argument from the dangers of sugar to the wider crisis of ultra-processed food, giving an evidence-based picture of why modern diets drive chronic disease. Ideal for health-conscious adults and gift buyers alike. About the Books Fat Chance, Dr Lustig's New York Times bestseller, first exposed sugar as toxic, addictive and hidden throughout the modern food supply. He explains why low-fat advice fails, why not all calories are equal, and how excess sugar drives illness even without weight gain, unpacking the food industry's role in hiding sugar and offering guidance on foods to cut. Metabolical builds on this foundation, widening the lens from sugar alone to the entire category of ultra-processed food. Dr Lustig argues that our dependence on processed products - enabled by the food industry, big agriculture, big pharma, institutional medicine and government policy - is the true root cause behind soaring rates of diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, cancer and dementia. Rather than accepting these as inevitable parts of ageing, Metabolical reframes them as preventable metabolic dysfunction and lays out a practical plan for individuals and society to return to real, unprocessed food. Read together, the two books move from diagnosis to full exposé, arming readers with both the urgent facts about sugar and the wider systemic picture of how processed food damages health and the environment. Two influential,