Dr. Robert Lustig, sitting in his cluttered office in a quiet hall of UCSF's main campus, is sounding glum. It's a few days before the release of his first book, "Fat Chance" - a scientific and ...

Sugar isn't healthy. That's a fact most people don't deny. But is the sweetener the worst thing in the American diet? According to a vocal minority of researchers, that's exactly the case. Led by ...

Move over salt. Step aside, saturated fat. There’s a new public enemy in the pantry, and it’s … sugar. In a provocative commentary coming out in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature, Dr. Robert ...

ABC News Nightline correspondent John Donvan interviews pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig about the dangers of consuming fructose during a visit to UCSF in March 2010. Robert Lustig, MD, a UCSF ...

The Chicago Tribune’s Good Eating section this week features an interview with Dr. Robert Lustig who gained fame for his anti-sugar lecture on YouTube and now his new book called “Fat Chance.” He ...

2013-11-28T23:03:24-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6b4/20131128230924001_hd.jpgDr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California ...

Robert Lustig wants to convince the world that sugar is making us very sick. And lately he's turned to an unconventional field – econometrics – to do it. Lustig rounded up statisticians and ...

There is, according to Robert Lustig, a substance that fits the bill times four -- save for the fact that it is not currently regulated. And that is sugar. Specifically, fructose. In a conversation ...

A wild animal is never more dangerous than when it is cornered. And Big Sugar is lashing out with all the sweet venom it can muster in response to the latest attacks on the iniquities of the American ...

It's a topic of hot debate. Some nutritionists and biochemists swear it is. Others say it's not. There are significant consequences. If consumption of sugar were someday found to be an addictive ...

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Substances like alcohol are regulated according to four criteria. For a government to take that big step on behalf of its citizens, a substance must: Bolstering the case for regulation, Lustig says, ...