TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The State of the Nation
II. How did we get it so wrong?
III. Fat or fiction?: Our dietary myths and misconceptions
- The diet-heart hypothesis
- Cholesterol: bad boy or innocent bystander?
- Calories In, Calories Out
- Salt: too much or too little
IV. The Real Causes
- Insulin resistance
- Inflammation
- The gut microbiome
V. Carbs, fats, and protein
VI. My Five Golden Rules
- Reduce sugar
- Avoid vegetable oils
- Eat real food
- Avoid processed foods
- Drink when you are thirsty
Vii. What Should I Eat? The trouble with weight-loss diets
- Red, amber and green
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- The Top Twenty
- The Ketogenic Diet
- Fasting
- Gluten and other allergies
- Sweeteners
- Vegetarian and vegan
- Supplements
- Reading food labels
- Fast food doesn’t necessarily mean junk food
- Eating out
- Don’t blow the food budget
- Female issues
- Feeding kids
- Diet and performance
VIII. The S-entials of Healthy Living
- Sugar
- Sedentary
- Sleep
- Stress
- Sun
- Smoking
IX The Modern Epidemics
- Obesity
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Fatty Liver
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Tooth Decay
- Chronic Diseases
X. Summing it all up
- The final word
- The final challenge
XI, The trouble with our health system
XII. Toolkit
- My favorite recipes
- How to measure body fat
- What blood tests should I have?
- Other names for sugar
XIII. Resources
- Movies
- Books
- YouTube videos
- Websites/blogs
- Podcasts