Metabolical: The Truth About Processed Food by Dr Robert Lustig - Non Fiction - Paperback

Details:. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781529350074. Publisher: Yellow Kite (Hodder & Stoughton). Overview. Metabolical is a hard-hitting exposé from New York Times bestselling author Dr Robert Lustig, exploring how ultra-processed food has quietly become the engine behind a modern epidemic of chronic disease. Backed by decades of clinical experience, Lustig unpicks the tangled relationships between the food industry, agriculture, pharmaceutical companies, medicine and government policy. This paperback edition offers a diagnosis of the problem and a genuinely actionable path towards better health.. About the Book. Dr Robert Lustig argues that our collective addiction to ultra-processed foods, aided by the food industry, big agriculture, pharmaceutical companies, institutional medicine and government policy, is fuelling a dramatic rise in chronic disease. Conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, fatty liver disease, certain cancers and dementia are often dismissed as an inevitable part of getting older, but Lustig makes the case that they are largely a consequence of what we eat rather than an unavoidable feature of ageing. Drawing on decades treating patients with metabolic disease, he dismantles the myths peddled by food marketing, showing how sugar, additives and industrial processing quietly rewire the body's chemistry long before symptoms appear. He traces the journey from the supermarket shelf back through agricultural policy and food science, expos...