The Complete Skinny on Obesity
10/28/2013; 58 minutes
Millions have watched Dr. Robert Lustig's YouTube videos on the role sugar plays in obesity. In this compilation of the popular YouTube series "The Skinny on Obesity," Dr. Lustig and his UCSF colleagues dig deeper into the root causes of the obesity epidemic. Discover why what we eat is as important as how much we eat. Understand the effects of stress on obesity rates, and why some predict that the next generation will die younger than the current one due to obesity and the many health problems it causes. (#25717)
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Fructose: Metabolic, Hedonic, and Societal Parallels with Ethanol, by Robert H. Lustig (Journal of the American Dietetic Association, September 2010)
- Public Health: The Toxic Truth About Sugar (Nature article by Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt and Claire Brindis)
- The Fructose Epidemic, by Robert H. Lustig (The Bariatrician, June 2009)
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