In his new book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease, endocrinologist and obesity doc Robert Lustig deconstructs the mythology of fat. He says exercise, for ...

Dr. Robert Lustig has become famous for his youtube video Sugar: The Bitter Truth (below). The 90 minute video has been watched over 4 million times. He’s also the author of Fat Chance: Beating the ...

MIT prepared Robert Lustig to wear many different hats: clinician, researcher, policy wonk, and author. But it’s surprising what he feels might have prepared him most. “Musical-theater guild,” he says ...

Lustig’s popularity can partially be attributed to his message that obesity is the result of a broken food system—not laziness or gluttony. For many people, who’ve been told for years that if they ...

Sugar is a major culprit in diseases such as obesity, diabetes and dementia—and because it's in almost everything we consume, Dr. Robert Lustig says it's time to get more proactive. Robert Lustig is ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. After years of treating patients with diet-related diseases, pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Robert ...

(CBS News) Famed physician Dr. Robert Lustig, known for his outspoken stance on the detrimental effects of sugar, praised New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his controversial efforts to curtail ...

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 ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Consuming large amounts of sugar could result in obesity, diabetes, liver diseases, and even cancer. However, it is becoming more difficult to monitor sugar intake as ...