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Copyright © Terence Kealey 2016
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Source ISBN: 9780008172367
Ebook Edition © December 2016 ISBN: 9780008172350
Version: 2017-04-27
To my wife, Sally
Contents
PART TWO: The Dubious Advocates of Breakfast
2. The glorification of breakfast
3. Breakfast in an age of commercial science
4. Myth No. 1: Breakfast cereals are healthy
5. Myth No. 2: Breakfast is good for the brain
6. Myth No. 3: Breakfast is slimming
PART FOUR: The Breakfast Paradox
10. The Harvard and Cambridge challenges
11. The heroic breakfast guerrillas
PART SIX: Misleading Experiments
12. Blood glucose and breakfast: the unhealthy majority
13. Blood glucose and breakfast: the healthy minority
14. Why have the scientists claimed breakfast to be safe?
PART SEVEN: How Breakfast Kills Us
PART EIGHT: Insulin, the Great Traitor
16. The carbohydratisation of the English-speaking breakfast
17. Nothing about breakfast makes sense except in the light of insulin
18. Diabesity, the big new disease
19. Insulin-resistance, the modern plague