Robert "Sugar: Bitter Truth" Lustig on ABCNews

The American Heart Association now recommends that you keep added sugars to less than 5% of your calorie intake. That's about 25 grams or 6 teaspoons per day for an average-sized adult.

More evidence linking sugar to heart disease
http://blog.nutritiondata.com/ndblog/2010/04/more-evidence-linking-sugar-to-h...

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [7/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 16717]

Full: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-9fyOmAkO8&feature=PlayList&p=EDB8C2F...

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[dubaobao]

Extraordinarily crappy journalism. No mentions of the data which shows a relationship between sugar consumption and obesity. No mention of the similarity between the Atkins diet and the Japanese diet, as noted by Ludwig. I give minor points for identifying the opposing camp as being paid by the industry, but (probably) a more honest approach would have been to state "Lustig's main detractors are paid by the sugar industry and I couldn't find anyone else."

[Lightsofnero]

Are the Corn Refiners Scientists and spokespeople the only people they could find to dispute what he has to say? Of course they're going to disagree, they'd be out of a job.

[tdkpaul]

Robert Lustig is a fat fuck. He probably eats not enough sugar!

[SuperGGnoRE]

This report isn't telling the whole story.

He says glucose is specifically good.

He says sucrose/fructose is specifically bad.

Because glucose =/= fructose.

[arieger2010]

we ought to be using sugars from grasses and grains to make fuel for our vehicles. Done correctly, replacing food stocks with other choices like nuts and beans and slowly moving a majority of wheat and corn production to the generation of fuel could slowly alleviate many of our current national problems; obesity, oil/gas drilling, energy security, farm subsidies (100 bushel p/ acre wheat could be highly profitable in a free energy market based on farm crops)

[poweronia]

7:35 The guy employed by the corn refiners association and Pepsi disagrees. Huh. Go figure.

[poweronia]

10 minutes before I sat down to watch this I put a teaspoon of sugar into my coffee :[

[msbunnypaws]

I watched Lustig's entire lecture and read the New York Times column and I have to say, this report leaves a lot of essential stuff out and kind of sucks. But what else is new? TV journalism is mostly garbage. When they can't get ideas from newspapers anymore, we're all in trouble.

[maverik15j]

@dubaobao I just wonder who gives more ad revenue to ABC, The University of San Francisco (Lustig's employer) or Pepsico and or Coca-Cola. And it is terrible journalism to portray the Corn Refiners rep and Dr. Lustig as equals in terms of who is qualified to DO!/interpret the research.

[VergieAnnei564]

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