Food Addiction Recovery Week - DAY 1 | Sugar and Chronic Disease with Robert Lustig, M.D.

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It is my honor to have Dr. Robert Lustig as the kickoff speaker on Food Addiction Recovery Week on Chef AJ LIVE! Starting today for the next 8 days we will have 1-2 experts each day who are either clinicians who treat patients with food addictions or people who suffer from the affliction.

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What is the true cost of sugar and fructose consumption? Just ask Dr. Lustig.

Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in metabolism, obesity, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and the just released book Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. He is the Chief Science Officer of the non-profit Eat REAL, he is on the Advisory Board of the Center for Humane Technology, Simplex Health, and Levels Health, and he is the Chief Medical Officer of BioLumen Technologies, Foogal, Perfact, and Kalin Health.

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[veganwinter]

🌈Hi Chef A.J., Endo-opiates discussion needed more . Too few people know of the discovery of the endo-opiate system, and the role it plays in our lives, the lives of others and complex addiction recovery.

[whatsinaplant]

Thank you Dr. Lustig! I have learned so much from you and applied what I learned to improve my health. Because of you, I have a better understanding about how my body works and what I need to do to help it stay healthy. I have been following you for awhile now. You, Dr. Lustig, are a rock star! 🌟

[ima]

Oh wow, i had no idea fructose in the form of high fructose corn syrup is so bad for our body but now i do. Now i understand why my doctor told me to cut sugar when my triglyceride rose in my blood work. Such cool stuff, thank you chef AJ to bring dr Lustig on.

[dorothyweidner]

I have been on so many diabetic diets over 6 decades...getting rid of fat, sugar, salt, and processed foods is the only way to blood sugar control.

[HappilyVeganSince]

While I feel Dr. Lustig is admirable, have appreciated his book 'Fat chance' and videos this video seems to me to have glaring omissions (unless somehow I missed them). 1) at the outset it should have been explained that what comes to mind as 'sugar' namely sucrose or table sugar is composed of a molecule each of glucose and sucrose. 2. Fruits contain both these, and it is thought that the fibre and probably antioxidants of fruit have a mitigating effect on the dangers of its fructose.

[Jasmine-ljou]

I disagree with his stance of sugar being toxic. The study he mentioned that 'verified' his claims had no change to the teenage boys normal diets when they added free sugars. Nobody gets fat and diabetic on a diet of juices and fat free high sugar candies. Only in combination with dietary fat will this cause issues. What did the teen boys normal diet consist of? I can guarantee it was high fat.

[katiemaguire]

How about giving a cure for sugar addiction? Fed up of hearing how bad sugar is when I'm addicted. Just makes me more hopeless and depressed.

[sylviapappas]

Stevia is a natural plant, but sugar has molasses removed which makes it over.processed !

[karenshapiro]

What foods contain fructose vs glucose? When you say you replaced children’s diet with starch, what are examples of starch? Thanks. Hi

[lesliekisser]

Fructose is in fruit and isn’t that good for you?