Dr. Rоbert Lustig

09/07/2025

Babies are the canaries in the coal mine. If we fixed the food, toddler obesity could be stopped.
Hey, we're working on it... dyes first, then sugar, then fiber.
RFK is focused on the dyes. I'm focused on the other two.

09/07/2025

The curse of processed food...
Not enough: fiber, omega-3 fatty acids (wild fish), micronutrients.
Too much: trans-fats, branched chain amino acids, omega-6 fatty acids, alcohol, sugar.

09/07/2025

Sugar is playing hide and seek with you.

09/07/2025

A few months ago, Eat Real, my non-profit, helped draft the California state legislation that banned Red Food Dye #3.
A month later, it went national.
Now RFK is seizing on that momentum to ban all artificial food dyes. A bold move to be sure.
Will this fix the food? Not even close. But it's a start. Next, let's see what he does about the real problems: sugar, fiber, and emulsifiers.

09/07/2025

Before 1980, Fatty Liver Disease didn't even exist:

09/07/2025

Bottom line: fructose inhibits mitochondrial function. Fructose inhibits ATP generation. Fructose inhibits energy metabolism. Fructose makes you sick.
The goal: keep the fructose levels down.

09/07/2025

Fiber is the unsung hero of weight loss.
UPFs are bad for many reasons, but the Big 2 are too much sugar and too little fiber.

09/07/2025

Who says it’s alcohol-related damage, when sugar causes the same mitochondrial dysfunction as alcohol?..and when children get the same diseases as alcohol (type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease)?

09/07/2025

For all my London friends, join me on June 14th in Wimbledon with Dr. Rachel Gow for Wellnergy, a celebration of neurodivergence and self-acceptance.

09/07/2025

In case you missed it:
It's clear why obesity and diabetes are on the rise—fast food addiction makes it nearly impossible to stop, even when you understand the risks.

09/07/2025

If you live in the Charlottesville, VA area:
Please register to join us for a dynamite discussion on Friday March 21 at 12:30PM EDT, entitled "Personal Responsibility or Public Health?"
With public health under attack from all sides, someone needs to stand up for the last 200 years of health improvement in America. We will explore the concept of Agnotology— a field that examines ignorance, not as mere absence of knowledge, but as willful disregard, and how it has taken root in America.

28/01/2025