Interventions to Reduce Sugar Consumption

[LioraLand]

Let's start with BREASTFEEDING infants, setting the metabolism as close to normal as possible. Infant formulas have 48% corn syrup solids!

[sundayraver]

I inject smoothies into my veins, better hit...

[JeffandKmusic]

At ~ 9:53 it is incorrectly mentioned that banana browning is caused by the Maillard Reaction. Banana peel browning is caused by enzymatic browning Not the Maillard reaction, which is a non-enzymatic browning involving amino acids and a reducing sugar.

[VinnieFelipavf654]

nun ich wiege 300 kilo

[RowansAHare]

News flash: none of you need soda. Having to pay more, and then buy less, and having it less available, won't kill you. But having it widely available, as cheaply as it is, just might.

[RowansAHare]

I can respect people for not agreeing with Dr. Lustig. However, last I checked, the Nazis, KGB agents, etc., detained, tortured, and killed people. That's a far cry from additional taxes, gov't incentives, changes to subsidies, and other recommendations in this video and elsewhere.

Stop being melodramatic!

[ECHutchinson]

But the Government is already intervening by giving corn subsidies so HFCS is cheap. Applying a tax to reclaim some of that subsidy is simply common sense. We all have to pay for the consequences of obesity. We should try to prevent it where ever possible and raising to prices of sodas and junk food by restoring the proper price of the raw ingredients, either by removing the subsidy or reclaiming it from the end product will be in the states/publics best interests.

[iwasborntobefly]

@ECHutchinson exactly. you deal with things on the front end or the back end. the govt gives a leg up to big agriculture and their lobbyists on the front end so on the back end, in order to make up for their spinelessness, they try to "correct" things on the back end. imo, better to deal with it on the front end but whatevs... weird how people complain about dumb ass crap like this. people are just idiots, esp. us americans. it's embarrassing.

[cmkalm]

I couldn't post it all in one shot. He had me until minute 24. Government can reward the healthy choices and penalize the unhealthy choices because it costs all of us for the bad food consumption going on in the United States. Look how fat & unhealthy the majority is...limited government is best. I pay $9 for a gallon of raw milk - why not reward that dairy farmer that feeds his cow grass naturally & takes care of his animals with no chemicals or hormones? Reward him NOT Monsanto or Con-Agra.

[cmkalm]

Over 60% of Americans are obese! Even baby formula has over 43% corn syrup solids in it! The GOVT caused this by trying to fix food prices in the 70's, plus the food food pyramid which is way warped and giving subsidies to sugar, corn and soy...there must be incentives for organic food and reward small farmers not CORPS! However, I do NOT want the GOVT in charge of this. Legislation should reward natural, live foods & tax the crap out of all processed foods! It's like Wall-E gone wild. :(

[ddgkkg2003]

fruck-tose?? thats fruck-ing annoying ! even merriam-webster dictionary online pronunciation says "frUctose" ...geee most annoying word of the year !

[alphacause]

Dr. Lustig is right that sugar is a primary culprit in obesity (but certainly not the only factor). But we are going down a bad road when we have the government prohibit things which have been long enjoyed. However, if we change how we subsidize food, and switch from subsidizing sugar, corn, and soy - the three things necessary to produce junk food - and subsidize naturally raised meats, vegetables, and dairy, we can change dietary habits without having to resort to big brother tactics.

[WithBACON]

Nice 1st response to the Sugar Nazi at "Richard Feinman Responds To Robert Lustig's Call For Government Intervention On Sugar".

[pippi3993]

People get fat by eating sugar and stachy food, not by eating fat.

Google LCHF (low carb high fat).

[gatersaw]

Interesting how elitists like to be eccentric. Fruck-tose. I guess then it must be Suck-crose. Lustig has a weak personality and seems a sociopath. Sorry to be off topic. HFCS is a serious issue and needs exposure, but this person is not our spokesman.

[MingBucibei]

I would prefer the tern sugar KGB since the fed gov is a pack of commie thugs, and the nazis were socialists

national socialism=: nazis= national socialists = marxists = communists

"Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis-German National Socialism." --Goering

[WithBACON]

Lustig refers to cannabis a toxic substance. And to caffeine and nicotine as non-toxic. Da boy has mush mush in his hed.

[ronskyster]

Quite a lot of sentiment to keep government out of the problem! Those who feel that way, which of these things are acceptable roles for government?

1. cocaine use

2. pot use

3. tobacco

4. defense against foreign threats

5. safety on roads

6. pollution

Just a start on the discussion to figure out where the line is. After we decide what kind of problems the government should deal with, then we must decide what kind of problem sugar is and how bad it is.

[dirtyharrydi]

I completely agree with Dr. Lustig. Alcoholism is viewed by society as a disease and there are plenty of avenues and social programs to help with it. Obesity and sugar addiction may in fact be more harmful it's just less obvious in our daily lives.

[epiphoney]

So sugar is half glucose, but glucose never gets turned to fat. Is that Dr. Lustig's theory?

[byronss]

Brilliant! I love Dr Lustig's explanations! As always this is backed up by the science.

[malcovy]

I have thought for many a long time that sugar added to foods is addictive. A very interesting and eye opening 30 min video.

[mikefarinha]

I love that Dr. Lustig is trying to push the issue that sugar is one of our worst culprits in the obesity epidemic but I strongly disagree with his intention to have governement become the solution. The governemt is the problem. He says towards the end of the video that public education doesn't work yet at the begining of the video he mentioned how effective the anti low-fat campaign was. This massive increase in sugar is due in large part to the gov't anti-fat movement from the 70s.

[ronskyster]

@mikefarinha

Regarding education about fat vs sugar, I think the difference is that fat is not addictive but sugar is, and Lustig's point about education is that it does not work for addictive substances.

[iwasborntobefly]

@mikefarinha why is government the problem and not monsanto or con agra or tyson foods? they are the ones lobbying the government to produce "food" using whatever ingredients and processes they want. the government is not manufacturing food.

[mikefarinha]

@iwasborntobefly I agree that big FARMA is the problem also. But big FARMA couldn't exist without government support & subsidies. Boycotting products will never be as effective as using your vote to reduce the size of government which will reduce or end the subsidies.

For example back in the early 90's, in California, my Grandpa's dairy was bought out by the government to help the dairy industry consolidate. This wasn't some corporation that bought him out but the government.

[iwasborntobefly]

@mikefarinha i agree. but it's ultimately the fault of americans, and the dogma we believe about this country. we chase our tails because of our dogma. we have government and the business we deserve. businesses that lobby would have created a campaign that would have accused the govt of being anti-business had they not caved on subsidies. people would be told jobs would be created and would vote x person out of office for not approving subsidies. now, who is at fault?

[vainamoinen17]

I like Lusitg's theories on weight loss that he laid out in "the bitter truth" and touched upon in this video. However, it is a shame that he is trying to use the government to force people to live the way he thinks they should live.

[MysticJabulon]

@vainamoinen17 I don't think 'force' is the right term. He actually addresses the rationale for inducing desired behavior in the talk --- if someone's choices affect the rest of society, so it seems reasonable to provide a corrective to any undesirable effects. It happens with alcohol and nicotine, why not apply a similar logic to fructose?

[WithBACON]

@vainamoinen17 Agreed. Lustig knows his science to some extent, but he's simply another Nazi prohibitionist. It's VERY disappointing that someone so bright can be so primitive and savage in his politics.

[Donal277]

@WithBACON Terrible comment. Nazi prohibitionist? What utter nonsense.

The widescale nature of sugar consumption means controling it in some ways is probably needed.

[WithBACON]

@Donal277 He IS a Nazi Prohibitionist. The shoe fits. Prohibition always fails, and always destroys far more lives than the prohibited substance(s). Lustig wants to go down that road, a road to hell. If you are foolish enough to support that lunacy, I pity you.

[Donal277]

@WithBACON Im refering to you using the term nazi to describe a man however wrong his theory may be is merely trying to improve things.

For shame on you.

[derek2010x]

@vainamoinen17 You are missing the most important thing: if you eat a lot of sugar and get fat because of it, I have to pay for your obesity. Money comes out of my pocket. If you make enough money to buy health care, I have to pay 50% higher premiums because HMOs are forced to take you on. If you are poor and obese, I have to pay for your emergency room visits. Either way YOU are a burden on my wallet. That is the key point. It is exactly like smoking or alcohol consumption.

[iwasborntobefly]

@vainamoinen17 um, the government has always put forth nutritional standards and recommendations. also, if we are all forced to suffer from the poor eating choices people make - cost of health care - then the government maybe should have a stance when it comes to areas they fund. there's nothing wrong with directing taxpayer funded schools to not serve crappy food to our nation's children, our future.

[AveryMilieu]

Hear Hear!!! I have long been an advocate of age limits for sugar purchases - especially the tasty, colored, easy to consume varieties. I was a pre teen sugar junkie and the habit (while no longer actively indulged) still craves...

[mackraceing]

Cannabis is habit forming like coffee etc but not addictive where tobacco and alcohol are addictive like heroin.Don't buy into refer madness BS there are so many reason to keep cannabis from the public and non of it has to do with safety.We are being poisoned to death by big corp with the blessing of the FDA etc.

[AveryMilieu]

@mackraceing I went through major withdrawl from coffee. Massive headaches that we not helped by tea or drugs intended for that purpose - I think that sounds like an addiction. Cannabis is also addictive - the body gets accustomed to it, stops producing cannabinoids internally when it is used regularly and it takes a while to re-start the process. Call it a withdrawl period, given that the cannabinoids regulate a number of functions including pain perception...

[AveryMilieu]

@mackraceing Actually, tobacco was easier to give up than coffee or sugar. Or pot.