Hey, Upgrade listeners. We are out this week, but we have a great recast for you. It's how to prevent your mind from being hacked with Dr. Robert Lustig.

Hello, and welcome to the Upgrade, the podcast from the team at Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.

And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor.

And today we're talking about how our minds are being hacked and what we can do about it.

We'll be talking to Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist who's probably best known for the viral video of a lecture he gave called Sugar, the Bitter Truth, about the damage caused by

sugary foods. He's the author of the book Fat Chance, beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease,

as well as the new book, The Hacking of the American Mind,

the Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains.

And we are getting sicker and stupider and fatter and broke.

Okay, Alice.

So it's September.

We'll know what that means.

Yeah, Apple Event.

Yes.

Apple iPhone Day yesterday.

How do you feel about this?

I feel excited because I buy a new iPhone every other cycle.

Like when there's a big new iPhone, that's when I get one. So I think it's time.

I can update my iPhone 6 to an iPhone 8, and I'm very excited about this. Okay. All right. I am

always disgusted by the Apple event, because it's just this kind of like obscene display of consumer culture. Well, they're sort of like

the cult of Apple, right? And like people get, they love. The rush, the rush to go buy the new thing and the

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