| | Introduction: Time to Think Outside the Box | p. xi |
| | The Greatest Story Ever Sold | |
| | A Fallacy of Biblical Proportion | p. 3 |
| | A Calorie Is a Calorie-or Is It? | p. 9 |
| | Personal Responsibility versus the Obese Six-Month-Old | p. 22 |
| | To Eat or Not to Eat? That's Not the Question | |
| | Gluttony and Sloth-Behaviors Driven by Hormones | p. 33 |
| | Food Addiction-Fact or Fallacy | p. 48 |
| | Stress and "Comfort Food" | p. 64 |
| | "Chewing" the Fat | |
| | The Birth, Care, and Feeding of a Fat Cell | p. 75 |
| | The Difference Between "Fat" and "Sick" | p. 85 |
| | Metabolic Syndrome: The New Scourge | p. 93 |
| | The "Real" Toxic Environment | |
| | The Omnivore's Curse: Low Fat versus Low Carb | p. 105 |
| | Fructose-The "Toxin" | p. 117 |
| | Fiber-Half the Antidote | p. 130 |
| | Exercise-The Other Half of the Antidote | p. 139 |
| | Micronutrients: Home Run or Hyperbole? | p. 150 |
| | Environmental "Obesogens" | p. 158 |
| | The "Empire" Strikes Back: Response of the Food Industry | p. 166 |
| | The Personal Solution | |
| | Altering Your Food Environment | p. 183 |
| | Altering Your Hormonal Environment | p. 209 |
| | Last Resorts: When Altering Your Environment Isn't Enough | p. 218 |
| | The Public Health Solution | |
| | The "Nanny State": Personal versus Societal Responsibility | p. 229 |
| | What Hath Government Wrought? | p. 239 |
| | A Call for Global Sugar Reduction | p. 255 |
| | Epilogue: Not a Top-Down but a Bottom-Up Movement | p. 272 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 277 |
| | Notes | p. 281 |
| | Glossary | p. 303 |
| | Index | p. 307 |