In this episode, find out what to do about the afternoon sugar crash, the truth about green smoothies, and the best methods for liver detoxification.
http://chriskresser.com/the-afternoon-sugar-crash-green-smoothies-and-liver-detoxification
In this episode, find out what to do about the afternoon sugar crash, the truth about green smoothies, and the best methods for liver detoxification.
http://chriskresser.com/the-afternoon-sugar-crash-green-smoothies-and-liver-detoxification
CSF professor Robert Lustig became an Internet video sensation when he spoke out about the evils of sugar in a post that went viral on YouTube. He was also recently featured in a New York Times Magazine cover story, "Is Sugar Toxic?" Lustig joins us in the studio to discuss sugar’s role in diabetes, obesity and related diseases.
We’ve been talking about it for a while, but Bailey Jay and I finally launched Sugar and Spice, a trans news and advice show! By very happy coincidence, Namoli
This week, Alec talks with Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UC San Francisco, about our country’s addiction to sugar. Children today are the first American generation to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, in large part due to obesity. According to Lustig, this obesity often comes from eating too much sugar.
Sugar is hard to avoid. A recent study reveals that 80 percent of the 600,000 food items in America are laced with added sugar. Lustig says, “There is not one biochemical reaction in your body, not one, that requires dietary fructose, not one that requires sugar. Dietary sugar is completely irrelevant to life. People say oh, you need sugar to live. Garbage.” Dr. Robert Lustig has made it his business to get the rest of the world to pay attention.