Robert Lustig is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Robert H. Lustig
Commentaries by Robert H. Lustig
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The Diet Debacle
SAN FRANCISCO – Two seemingly benign nutritional maxims are at the root of all dietary evil: A calorie is a calorie, and You are what you ea…
The Diet Debacle
Joan Meyer: I wonder if sugar is responsible for alcoholism. Why are there drinkers and heavy drinkers who go home and go to bed. Then there are alcoholics who, I believe are addicted to sugar, and therefore stay…
The Diet Debacle
Dennis Argall: The elephant in the can is this: "Of the 600,000 food items available in the US..." This sophisticated argument about lipolysis might have usefully noted that in reality a huge proportion of th…