What is the proper role of sugar in our society and is it can be considered a poison?

Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by Dr. Robert Lustig,

who is a professor of pediatric endocrinology

at the University of California in San Francisco.

And you might know him for one of the more popular YouTube videos on Sugar.

It has over 5 million views.

Now that's not as many a size gang in style with 3 billion but it's certainly very popular.

And he might have also seen him on 60 minutes.

So we're really honored and privileged to have him join us today for a discussion on this really important topic.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today.

My pleasure, Dr. McCulloch.

So I'm wondering if you could perhaps expand on or comment on your view on the role of sugar in society.

His proper role I guess might be a better term for it.

Well you know once upon a time sugar was a condiment and it had

been a condiment really from 1200 BC when the Indian subcontinent first learned how to extract cane juice and it got

shipped around as a food extract which was called Kanda, which of course got ultimately shortened to candy and it

was for nobility it was hard to come by until about700 when the pot still allowed for mass production of refined sugar.

It was still extraordinarily expensive until the middle of the 18th, 19th century.

And at that point, we started seeing it appearing in various venues, and we started seeing it appearing in various venues and we started seeing the growth of the American

sugar industry in Louisiana, in Texas, in Hawaii.

And that's when we started seeing chronic metabolic disease,

rear his ugly head, at about the same time.

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