Dr. Robert Lustig is Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig has become a leading public health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases.
In his New York Times best selling book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processes Food, Obesity, and Disease, Robert documents both the science and the politics that have led to the current pandemic of obesity and chronic disease. In the Fat Chance Cookbook, Dr. Lustig provides practical examples for applying healthy eating principles with recipes by Cindy Gershen. Dr. Lustig joins us today to discuss his new book, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine.
