The Surprising Reason People are Overweight with Dr. Robert Lustig
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In Robert Lustig's early work as a pediatric endocrinologist, he began studying the effect certain molecules had on the body's organs. What he found was a stunning connection between fructose and liver function, which helps explain the reason for today's obesity epidemic. In the first episode of a series with the author of "Fat Chance," Dr. Daniel Amen and Lustig discuss how and why fructose is making people fat.
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| 0:50.3 | Welcome everybody. |
| 0:51.3 | I am so excited for this week and maybe we'll call it the |
| 0:56.2 | bitter truth week. I am here with my new friend Rob Lustig who is a professor of pediatrics in the division of |
| 1:06.4 | endocrinology at UC San Francisco. He is also the chief science officer at Eat Real, a non-profit dedicated to reversing childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes. |
| 1:22.0 | Dr. Lustig consults several childhood obesity |
| 1:26.0 | groups and government agencies, his books, which are just amazing |
| 1:32.0 | include the New York Times bestseller Fat Chance, the |
| 1:36.0 | Fat Chance cookbook, and Sugar has 56 names, a shopper's guide, and his new book is called The Hacking of the American Mind, |
| 1:48.6 | which is really interesting because I actually submitted a proposal for a book called Flying Blind and the raping of the American |
| 1:55.5 | mind, but then I thought, okay, that's a little over the top. |
| 1:58.2 | Raping, hacking, you know, it's all the same. |
| 2:01.0 | So how, we actually just met a few weeks ago. Yeah yeah. The |
| 2:05.7 | I've known about you for a while and I see I take it you have known about me for a |
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