Fat Chance

2021-02-23

This scandal was, incredibly, only the beginning of an unbelievable saga of greed. In Fat Chance, Rick Christman recounts a story that a judicial tribunal later described as "a tale worthy of the pen of Charles Dickens.

Author: Rick Christman

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

ISBN: 9781949669329

Category: True Crime

Page: 244

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During the early 1990s, the diet drugs fen-phen and Redux achieved tremendous popularity. The chemical combination was discovered by chance, marketed with hyperbole, and prescribed to millions. But as the drugs' developer, pharmaceutical giant American Home Products, cashed in on the miracle weight-loss pills, medical researchers revealed that the drugs caused heart valve disease. This scandal was, incredibly, only the beginning of an unbelievable saga of greed. In Fat Chance, Rick Christman recounts a story that a judicial tribunal later described as "a tale worthy of the pen of Charles Dickens." Bill Gallion, Shirley Cunningham, and Melbourne Mills contrived to bring a class-action lawsuit against American Home Products in Covington, Kentucky. Their hired trial consultant, Mark Modlin, had a bizarre relationship with the presiding judge, Jay Bamberger of Covington, who was once honored as the Kentucky Bar Association's "Judge of the Year." Soon after, Stan Chesley, arguably the most successful trial attorney in the United States, joined the class-action suit. Ultimately, their efforts were rewarded with $200 million for the 431 plaintiffs, and the four lawyers immediately began to plunder their clients' money. When the fraud was discovered, two of the attorneys received long prison sentences and another was acquitted after claiming an alcoholism defense. All four were permanently banished from the practice of law and Judge Bamberger was disbarred and disrobed. Recounting a dramatic affair that bears conspicuous similarities to opioid-related class-action litigation against the pharmaceutical industry, Christman offers an engaging, if occasionally horrifying, account of one of America's most prominent product liability cases and the settlement's aftermath.
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The Fat Chance Cookbook

2013-12-31

Now, in The Fat Chance Cookbook, Lustig helps us put this information into action for ourselves.

Author: Robert H. Lustig

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9780698153639

Category: Cooking

Page: 352

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The companion cookbook to the New York Times bestseller Fat Chance Fat Chance became an instant New York Times bestseller. Robert Lustig’s message that the increased sugar in our diets has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last thirty years captured our national attention. Now, in The Fat Chance Cookbook, Lustig helps us put this information into action for ourselves. With more than 100 recipes as well as meal plans, nutritional analyses, shopping lists, and food swaps, he shows us easy ways to drastically reduce sugar and increase fiber to lose weight and regain health – both for ourselves and for our families. Lustig also shows us how to navigate the grocery store with handy lists for stocking the pantry as well as how to read a food label in order to find hidden sugars and evaluate fiber content. Accessible, affordable, and geared toward lasting results, The Fat Chance Cookbook will be a fun and easy roadmap to better health for the whole family.
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Fat Chance

2012-12-27

Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.

Author: Robert H. Lustig

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9781101606582

Category: Health & Fitness

Page: 336

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New York Times Bestseller Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering our biochemistry and driving our eating habits out of our control. To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lustig presents personal strategies to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress; and societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation. Compelling, controversial, and completely based in science, Fat Chance debunks the widely held notion to prove “a calorie is NOT a calorie”, and takes that science to its logical conclusion to improve health worldwide.
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Fat Chance

2012-06-15

She isn't fat, just obsessed with it. ... It starts with golden oldies, like the quacko
The Last Chance Diet, by Robert Linn ... (stop eating altogether); The Rice Diet
by Walter Kempner (nutritionally unsound, but lowers blood pressure); the U.S. ...

Author: Deborah Blumenthal

Publisher: Harlequin

ISBN: 9781459246140

Category: Fiction

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Plus-size Maggie O'Leary is America's Anti-Diet Sweetheart. Her informed column about the pitfalls of dieting is the one sane voice crying out against the dietocracy. She is perfectly happy with who she is and the life she leads. Until she gets the chance to spend some quality time with Hollywood's hottest star. Maggie knows she can't exactly show up looking like…well, herself. So she swallows her words and vows to become the skinniest fat advocate Tinseltown has ever seen. Swearing her trusted assistant to silence, Maggie embarks on a "secret" makeover. From showdowns with her boss, who is convinced his star columnist is losing her edge—er, girth—to run-ins with her closest male friend, the trip through the famed red door of beauty is anything but graceful. But despite her doubts about abandoning the comfortable life she's known—not to mention deceiving legions of loyal readers who still think of her as their champion, L.A.-bound Maggie is hell-bent on getting her just "desserts"! Bursting with wit, insight and humor, Deborah Blumenthal's Fat Chance is a guilt-free pleasure that is good to the last page!
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Real Women Don t Diet

1993

The Spirulina Diet The Preconception Gender Diet The Preventive Diet for Heart
and Overweight The Hampton ' s Health ... Medical Diet The Odessa Diet The
Official Cambridge Diet The New Calorie Neutralizer Diet The Fat Chance Diet
The ...

Author: Ken Mayer

Publisher:

ISBN: 0910155275

Category: Health & Fitness

Page: 190

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Millions of full-figured women face discrimination and cruelty every day of their lives. Too many hopelessly struggle to conform to society's image of how a "real woman" should look. Now, one man offers a bold new direction with this powerful and sensitive affirmation of the beauty, desirability, and sexiness of big women. Real Women Don't Diet! will alter the way the women of America view themselves. How did Ken Mayer become such an outspoken and forceful advocate for the attractiveness of large women? He begins by revealing an intensely personal and intimate look at the realization of his own sexual fascination for big, beautiful women. Real Women Don't Diet! explores the unrealistic roles that are created by the media. Ken exposes the male insecurities and frustrations which lead to the abuse of power and documents the forces behind the manipulation of women. It becomes clear how the interests of the fashion, medical, and fitness industries are served by making females feel overweight, unhealthy, and undesirable. Real Women Don't Diet! is also a celebration of the triumphs of big women in their efforts to achieve a positive self-esteem. You'll hear the courageous stories of women who grew up "fat" by society's standards. The author, a large size fashion photographer, includes portraits of women that capture added dimensions of beauty, shattering the stereotyped image of feminine sexiness. Ken Mayer challenges women to take a stand and fight for the right to be themselves--regardless of their size; to refuse to be exploited. His message is simple, yet profound: large women are perfect, just as they are. Real Women Don't Diet! will convince you that big women are attractive to the kind of men who desire women with presence--women who achieve their mental, emotional, and physical potential.
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Politics Today

1978

They do not read diet books with the same wants to go to sleep fat and wake up
fresh and slim skeptical eye they use ... THE FAT CHANCE DIET BY THEODORE
BERLAND million overweight Americans are a ready gullible market for diet ...

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ISBN: UOM:39015011324053

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Fat Chance

1992

VERY LOW CALORIE DIETS Liquid protein diets first came onto the market in
1976 and 1977 and the Cambridge diet arrived in the early 1980s . Unfortunately
the excitement which surrounded their release meant that their consumption was
 ...

Author: Jane Ogden

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 0415073715

Category: Psychology

Page: 105

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Examines why so many people spend their lives dieting yet so few ever lose any weight. Showing how the process of dieting itself sets you up for failure, Ogden explodes many of the myths about dieting, and offers an alternative to dieting - a way to feel good about yourself.
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The Absolute Last Chance Diet Book

1991

Realistic expectation - Freedom from panic in the halls when school thugs yell , “
Let ' s beat up the fat guy . " 48 year - old wife : Unrealistic expectation - Fitting
back into size six wedding dress . Realistic expectation - Fitting back into
compact ...

Author: John Kolness

Publisher: CCC Publishing

ISBN: 0918259371

Category: Reducing diets

Page: 92

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Ebony

1979-07

There are those who have tried numerous fad diets— the banana diet, the
grapefruit diet, the high protein diet, the milkshake diet, the water diet, the last
chance diet— and are still fat. Some among the pleasingly plump even fast.
Millions of ...

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Page: 128

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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
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Ebony

1977-10

Its popularity came to the fore with the publication of a flood of books in recent
months, the most notable being Dr. Robert Linn's The Last Chance Diet. Fasting
has become the "new" way to lose weight, and it has cachet, although the method
 ...

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Page: 168

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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
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3 Fat Chicks on a Diet

2007-04-01

We lost our weight, not our problems, so it's important to deal with your issues
and find a better solution than eating. ... Blubber, Judy Blume Bridget Jones's
Diary, Helen Fielding Fat Chance, Deborah Blumenthal Good in Bed, Jennifer
Weiner ...

Author: Suzanne Barnett

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

ISBN: 9781429901505

Category: Health & Fitness

Page: 288

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Filled with the sassy attitude and sage advice of three lovable sisters from the South who have been fighting the battle of the bulge for most of their lives, 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet tells everyone who has ever wanted to lose a few pounds how to find dieting success. Because every dieter will try most of the popular diets at some point in a weight-loss struggle, the sisters give you the real scoop—as well as anecdotes and wisdom from scores of their online community of women—on the favorites, from South Beach to the Mediterranean Diet, Atkins to the Zone, and celebrity-driven weight-loss programs to Ediets. You'll get so much more than just coffee-klatch gossip: * The pros and cons of each diet * Guilt-free ways to snack and still stay with the program * Straight talk for making the diets work for every meal of the day * Menu suggestions when dining out * Delicious recipes to try at home * And much more! Best of all, the book offers a fool-proof support system of love and encouragement from women just like you who are trying to win the war with their waistlines. Just when you think you're bogged down by calorie counting, the 3 Fat Chicks diet community takes you on a humorous romp through their battles with everything from slimming slippers and fat-away soap to cabbage soup and grapefruit diets. Get the real-world facts that you need to embark on your personal journey to change your weight and your life.
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Toward Fitness

1980

restriction , the body gradually adapts by conserving protein and water and
increasingly burning fat to make up the ... Whenever carbohydrate intake is
severely restricted , as it is in the " The Last Chance Diet , ” fat is mobilized ; the
rapid ...

Author: Robert C. Cantu

Publisher:

ISBN: UCAL:B4285128

Category: Medical

Page: 258

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A physician outlines programs of exercise for people with physical problems such as obesity, diabetes, and back pain.
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Health Psychology

1988

advocating this approach , The mineral deficiency , since the nu - not in the fat
itself . ) Last Chance Diet ( Linn , 1976 ) . trients are not fully absorbed . It is a
tribute to the deswas more prophetic than the There have also been sur peration
of the ...

Author: Jess Feist

Publisher:

ISBN: UCAL:B4952909

Category: Attitude to Health

Page: 434

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A balanced introduction to the subject that uses a systems approach in examining the mechanisms of health and the clinical factors of the disease process, tying these together with the behavioural factors (the psychology of health). The text examines the specific, critical areas of the field including stress, pain, behavioural factors in cardiovascular disease and cancer, and the management of those factors. There is also emphasis on personal control and health that include such public health concerns as smoking, excessive consumption of alcohol, and eating disorders. This book should be of interest to degree and diploma students taking courses in health psychology; also of interest to students in departments of health, physical education and nursing.
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The Better Better Body Book

1985-01-01

... "Fat Chance in a Thin World," 8. 28. Squire, The Slender Balance, 8. 29. Joel
Yager, "Preface," lbid., 13-14. 30. Squire, The Slender Balance, 8. 31. Bennett
and Gurin, The Dieter's Dilemma, 15-16. 32. Polivy and Herman, Breaking the
Diet ...

Author: Marjorie Frank

Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company

ISBN: 031042741X

Category: Medical

Page: 371

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The Fat of the Land

1998

Eat Fat ( Klein ) , 119 Eat Fat and Grow Slim ( Mackarness ) , 139 eating , 54 , 171
-77 ; effect of exercise on , 211-12 . ... 58 , 66 fat blockers , 237–38 Fat Burner ,
241 “ fat - burning enzymes , " 212-13 “ fat - burning foods , " 148 Fat Chance ...

Author: Michael Fumento

Publisher: Penguin Books

ISBN: CHI:62148681

Category: Health & Fitness

Page: 352

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Examining the roots of the American obesity crisis, a guide for dieters examines the roles of alcohol, television, serving sizes, diet hype, the sugar industry, and using food as entertainment in keeping people overweight
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Fat Chance

1996

Author: Joan Cortopassi

Publisher: Alden Books/the Cook & the Trainer

ISBN: 0964949601

Category: Medical

Page: 373

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A professional chef and a personal trainer explore food and fitness, including the food pyramid, aerobic exercise, strength training, snacking, and healthful food preparation
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