Ep. 161 The Nutritional Battlefield & Debunking Chronic Diseases: How Most Food Has Become Poison with Dr. Robert Lustig

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Cynthia Thurlow

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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I am happy to have Dr. Robert Lustig joining me today! He is an Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976 and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and the recently-released book Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. Many people assume that any food sold in the grocery store is healthy. But the truth is that most of the food-like substances that people are consuming today are far from real, and they do not metabolically support either a healthy body or a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Lustig lived in the ecosystem of modern medicine for forty years. Then, after doing some research, he saw that the data he was generating did not conform to the party line. So, in 2007, he started speaking out about what he thought to be the biggest problem in nutrition- sugar. Stay tuned to find out how Dr. Lustig is debunking modern medicine and chronic disease, and learn what you can do to navigate the modern-day nutritional battlefield. IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: What Dr. Lustig discovered when he started doing research. Why Dr. Lustig wrote his first book, Fat Chance. The difference between nutrition and food science. How most food has become poison. Why the concept of calories should be disregarded. Dr. Lustig talks about leptin resistance and explains what you can do to overcome it. Why eighty-eight percent of Americans have metabolic dysfunction. Dr. Lustig explains what we need to eat to have a healthy diet. Dr. Lustig shares his proposed definition of healthy. The importance of fiber. The problem with Big Pharma. Dr. Lustig explains why food subsidies do not make sense. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Dr. Lustig On his website Get his new book here! On Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

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0:00.0	This is everyday wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.
0:11.0	And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.
0:17.8	Today I am joined by Dr. Robert Lustig.
0:21.0	He is an emeritus professor of pediatrics in the division of
0:24.0	endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at
0:28.2	UCSF. Dr Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition.
0:36.0	He is one of the leaders of the current anti sugar movement that is changing the food industry.
0:41.0	He graduated from MIT, received his MD from Cornell, received his
0:45.0	Masters of Studies and Law degree at the University of California, Hastings School
0:49.0	College of Law. He is the author of the popular book's Fat Chance, The Hacking of the American Mind, and the just released
0:55.9	metabolic the lure and lies of processed food, nutrition, and modern medicine.
1:01.2	Pleasure to have you with me this afternoon.
1:03.5	Thank you so much for carving time
1:04.7	out of your busy schedule.
1:06.1	That's my pleasure, Cynthia.
1:07.6	It's part of my job now, so it's quite all right.
1:10.8	Yeah, so talk to us about how food has largely become poison.
1:16.6	You know, I read your most recent book with great interest and I think for many people
1:21.3	the assumption is made that if it's in the grocery store or if it's at the corner market, it's obviously healthy and you and I would both agree that most of the food-like substances that people are consuming nowadays or anything but real or anything that is
1:36.4	metabolically supportive of a healthy lifestyle or healthy body?
1:41.0	Well, first you have to know what healthy means. And in order to know what healthy means, you have to know what health means. And I will tell you right now, health care don't know. And, you know, government don't know. And to be honest with you you modern medicine don't know and you know I lived
1:56.1	within that ecosystem for 40 years you know I was
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