How to Prevent Your Mind From Being Hacked, With Robert Lustig

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🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Dr. Robert Lustig joins us in the studio to talk about his new book, “The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains.” Dr. Lustig is a pediatric endocrinologist who is also author of the book “Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease.” He talks to us about how corporate interests have worked to keep us addicted to pleasure—and how our addictions have robbed us of happiness. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	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.
0:22.0	I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. I'm Melissa Kirsch,
0:26.8	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
0:32.6	Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist who's probably best known for the viral video of a lecture he gave called
0:39.4	Sugar, the Bitter Truth, about the damage caused by sugary foods.
0:43.7	He's the author of the book Fat Chance, Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease,
0:49.7	as well as the new book, The Hacking of the American Mind,
0:53.2	the science behind the corporate takeover of our American Mind, the Science Behind the Corporate
0:54.6	Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains. And we are getting sicker and stupider and fatter and broke.
1:04.0	Okay, Alice, so it's September. We'll know what that means. Yeah, Apple Event. Yes. Apple iPhone Day.
1:11.5	How do you feel about this?
1:12.3	I feel excited because I buy a new iPhone every other cycle.
1:17.3	Like when there's a big new iPhone, that's when I get one.
1:21.0	So I think it's time.
1:22.9	I can update my iPhone 6 to an iPhone 8, and I'm very excited about this.
1:27.7	Okay.
1:28.1	All right.
1:28.7	I am always disgusted by the Apple event because it's just this kind of like obscene display of consumer culture.
1:38.2	Well, they're sort of like the cult of Apple, right?
1:40.7	And like people get, they love.
1:42.6	The rush, the rush to go buy the new thing and the kind of obsessiveness about it. And it's the same. And it's just kind of... Also, I feel like the last couple ones have just been kind of worse. Like... Yeah, well, obviously, since Steve Jobs died, I feel like things have changed in the Apple events. You sound a little bit like our guest today, not to bring it back on topic, but to bring it back, to bring it to the topic of the show today.
2:05.2	See, I'm not a puppet like some people.
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