Fat Chance with Rob Lustig
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2013
Watch Dr. Lustig on the Swedish program, korrespondenterna. April 2, 2013
| Watch Dr. Lustig on CNN Saturday Morning |
The Truth About Sugar by Heather Millar
Prevention Magazing, March 2013
Ten local innovators speculate about what will come to pass - and cease to exist - within the next ten years by Annie Tittiger
San Francisco Magazine, March 29th, 2013
Why hours at the gym may not translate into the bikini body you're hoping for on The Cycle
March 28, 2013
Fat Chance on The Colbert Report with Steven Colbert!
March 28th, 2013
Public Defenders; Aleksandar Hemon; Typhoid Mary; and Robert Lusting on Sugar, Fat, and Health on The Leonard Lopate Show
March 28th, 2013
Sugar, not fat, exposed as deadly villain in obesity epidemic by Sarah Boseley
The Guardian, March 20th, 2013
Balaji Ravichandran: Sugar is the new tobacco by BMJ Group
BMJ Group Blogs, March 15th, 2013
Sugar's Role in Rise of Diabetes Gets Clearer by Eliza Barclay
NPR.org, March 1st, 2013
Availability of sugar influences rate of diabetes, study says by Melissa Healy
Los Angeles Times, February 27th, 2013
It's the Sugar, Folks by Mark Bittman
The New York Times Opinion Pages, February 27th, 2013
Still Believe 'A Calorie is a Calorie'? by Robert Lustig, MD
HuffPost Healthy Living, February 27th, 2013
| Sugar War: Is the sweet stuff toxic? with Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell CBS This Morning |
Food Fight! by Kevin Featherly
Delta Sky Magazine, February 2013
Rob talks with Michael Krasny:
Fat Chance: 11 common-sense tips to eat, live healthier (slide show)
Washington Post,
January 25, 2013
What sugar really does to your body by Deborah Kotz
Boston.com/Health, January 16, 2013
Author dishes on food industry's role in obesity by Monica Eng
Chicago Tribune, January 16, 2013
Dr. Robert H. Lustig talks sugar, 'Fat Chance' by Georgia Kral
AM New York, January 15, 2013
The Fallacies of Fat (audio)
Science Friday
Opinion: A fast-food, sugar fiasco by Robert Lustig
CNN Health, January 11, 2013
How Sugar Sneaks Into Your Diet by Ava Feuer
Redbook, January 11, 2013
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Defusing the health care time bomb by Rob Lustig
SFGate, January 5, 2013
Big food companies should start to worry about tobacco-like lawsuits by Stephanie Gruner Buckley
Quartz, January 3, 2013
How much 'invisible' sugar do you eat? by Samuel Muston
The Independent, January 3, 2013
Fat and sugar are just as deadly as cigarettes by Camilla Cavendish
The Times, January 3, 2013
Too much sugar in diet to be blamed for obesity epidemic
The Siasat Daily, January 2, 2013
The Sweet Lowdown: Exposing the Unhealthy Truth About Sugar by Stephanie Schomer
The Oprah Magazine, January 2013
Crack For Kids by Andrew Sullivan
The Daily Beast, January 1, 2013
Dr. Robert Lustig crusades against sugar by Erin Allday
SFGate, January 1, 2013
Is sugar the next tobacco? by Elizabeth Weil
Salon, January 1, 2013
2012
The REAL reason you eat too much: New theory could revoluntionise the way we lose weight by Louise Atkinson
Mail Online, December 31, 2012
The low fad diet by Tim Rayment
The Sunday Times, December 30, 2012
Bring Back Home Ec -- and This Time, for Boys, Too! by Robert Lustig, Cindy Gershen, and Shane Valentine
The Huffington Post (The Blog), December 27, 2012
Sugar Controversies: Should government restrict sugar consumption? by Marcia Clemmitt
CQ Researcher, November 30, 2012
Le sucre, c'est pas du gateau by Catherine Girard (French)
Quebec Science, November 23, 2012
Would you coupe without your annual sugar fix? I went through 40 bags a year before I quit on my dangerous addiction by Alice Smellie
UK Mail Online, November 10, 2012
Toxic Sugar by Clare Pain
Cosmos: The Science of Everything
Die suBe Droge by Von Shafy, Samiha (in German)
Der Speigel
Robert Lustig:"Nuestro actual ambiente nutricional es toxico por exceso de azucar y falta de fibra" by Nora Bar (in Spanish)
La Nacion
The Truth About Sugar by Rachael Moeller Gorman
Eating Well: Where Good Taste Meets Good Health
Swapping Out Sugary Soda for Diet Drinks May Help Tip the Scale In Your Favor by Allison Aubrey
npr's The Salt: What's On Your Plate
Episode #19: Robert Lustig
Here's the Thing with Alec Baldwin
A Thought for Food, June 27th, 2012
Sugar in the Morning, Sugar in the Evening, Sugar at Suppertime
Podcast with David Hoffman, presented by Science & the City and the Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science
Mother Jones, June 18th, 2012
Soda: Ban it? Nah. Tax it? Yep. by Maddie Oatman
Is a Soda Tax a Good Idea? by Kiera Butler & Maddie Oatman
The Men Who Made Us Fat June 15, 2012 |
The Guardian (UK), June 11, 2012
Why our food is making us fat by Jacques
Peretti
60 Minutes (Australia), June 8,2012
Sweet Poison*, reported by Allison Langdon
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USA Today, June 8, 2012
Health advocates go sour on sugar by Nanci Hellmich
Also - Take the Sugar Quiz and test your knowledge on sugar!
New York Daily News, June 3, 2012
Sugar is killing us by Robert H. Lustig
Project Syndicate: A World of Ideas, May 28, 2012
The Diet Debacle by Robert H. Lustig
The New York Times, April 21, 2012
When a Sugar High Isn't Enough by David Segal
Los Angeles Times, April 14, 2012
Sounding the Sugar Alarms by
Chris Woolston
| UCTV Prime: The Skinny on Obesity Series, April 13th through May 25th, 2012 |
Yale Rudd Center Food Policy & Obesity, April 4th, 2012
Sugar and Processed Food
Childhood Obesity
| ABC News Good Morning America, April 4, 2012 Sugar Regulated as a "Controlled Substance"? |
NY Daily News, April 2, 2012
Sugar is as Addictive as Cocaine by Lindsay Goldwert
| 60 Minutes, April 1, 2012 Is Sugar Toxic? by Sanjay Gupta 60 Minutes Overtime: Sugar and Kids: The Toxic Truth |
The New York Times, March 30, 2012
Puberty Before Age 10: 'A New Normal'? by Elizabeth Weil
npr: On Point with Tom Ashbrook, March 1, 2012
Regulating Sugar
| Foodconsumer, February 27, 2012 Insulin and Fructose, the Cause of Obesity? by Dr. Mercola |
npr with Ira Flatow on Science Friday, February 17, 2012
Should Sugar be Regulated like Alcohol?
The Atlantic, February 21, 2012
The Most Unhappy of Pleasures: This is Your Brain on Sugar by Rob Lustig
| JumpstartMD Lecture, February 3, 2012 Dangers of Sugar - Part 1 |
New York Daily News, February 3, 2012
Should sugar be taxed like tobacco and alcohol?
Nature 482, pages 27-29, February 1, 2012
Public Health: The Toxic Truth About Sugar by Robert H. Lustig, Laura A. Schmidt, and Claire D. Brindis
CNN Health, February 1, 2012
Opinion: Why we should regulate sugar like alcohol by Laura Schmidt
| UCSF News Center, February 1, 2012 Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden by Juliana Bunim |
2011
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, November 14th, 2011
Is Sugar Toxic?, a podcast
Que Pasa: Tecnologia & Ciencia (in Spanish)
Sin azucar, por favor by Francisco Aravena F.
Folha de San Paulo, July 24, 2011
Acucar causa dependencia como alcool e cigarro, diz medico (in Portuguese) by Patricia Campos Mello
| 2011 COAST/UCOP Symposium on UCTV, July 19 Sugar Highs and Lows: How to Have a Sweet Ending - Interventions to Reduce Sugar Consumption, with Dr. Robert Lustig View the PowerPoint presentation here. |
| KQED Public Radio Forum, April 21, 2011 Sugar and Health |
New York Times, April 13, 2011
Is Sugar Toxic? by Gary Taubes
2010
UCSF News Center, March 11, 2010
UCSF Lecture on Sugar & Obesity Goes Viral as Experts Confront Health Crisis by Kate Vidinsky
2009
New York Daily News, October 20, 2009
High fructose corn syrup fuels our latest addiction epidemic by Dave Moore and Bill Manville
| UCTV UCSF Osher Mini Medical School for the Public, July 27, 2009 Sugar: The Bitter Truth |
2006
BBC News, August 19, 2006
'Toxic diets' fuel child obesity
| KQED Public Radio: forum with Michael Kransy, August 15, 2006 Obesity & Starvation |
SF Gate, April 12, 2006
Obese? A 'poisoned' food supply may be to blame, UCSF Expert Says by Erin Allday
UCSF News Center, August 11, 2006
Childhood obesity caused by "toxic environment" of Western diets, study says by Phyllis Brown