3 Easy Ways to Prevent Childhood Obesity

Overview You may have heard about the childhood obesity epidemic and maybe even have some concerns about your own children. If they do not have a weight problem now, that is good news. But, you can be proactive to prevent obesity from ever happening in your family. Children are impressionable. They learn most of their [...]

Dr Robert H Lustig, UCSF Random Thoughts on Obesity

We all weigh 25 pounds more than we did 25 years ago. No one chooses to be obese. Leptin is a hormone that comes from your fat cell that tells your brain, ‘I’ve had enough. I don’t need to eat anymore’. One can of soda a day = 150 calories x 365 days/year + 3500 [...]

Causes of Childhood Obesity – Eating Habits

The Wrong Foods Lead to Obesity In order to live, we must eat. Somewhere in our history, we stopped eating to live and started living to eat. This obsession with food has led to not only obesity in adults,  but a rising obesity in children. Let’s examine the eating habits that can lead to obesity [...]

Are you concerned about the amount of sugar in milk? Here’s a great milk alternative

I’m looking at a container of 2% milk right now and the Nutrition Facts say that there are 12 grams of sugar in one cup of milk.  That is equivalent to almost 2 1/2 teaspoons of sugar.  Can you see yourself pouring a glass of milk and then putting 2 1/2 teaspoons of sugar in [...]

Sugar May Be Bad, But This Sweetener is Far More Deadly

View this incredible video presentation by Robert H. Lustig, MD UCFS Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. It is about 1.5 hours in duration, but if you want the truth about High Fructose Corn Syrup, this is the presentation to see. If you liked that post, try these…3 Easy Ways to Prevent Childhood Obesity Overview .Are [...]

Sweet Deception: The Additive Aspertame

100 times sweeter than sugar, Aspertame took 16 years to be approved. The FDA brought criminal prosecution against the makers of this products for deception and distorting the data. Eventually time ran out and the makers were never prosecuted, but that does not mean they weren’t skewing the results. If you liked that post, try [...]

Obesity & Starvation Forum assesses a recent hypothesis on obesity, and how sugar may trigger a starvation reaction in the brain

Host: Michael Krasny Guest: Robert Lustig, author of the hypothesis, which was published last week in Nature Clinical Practice: Endocrinology and Metabolism, professor of clinical pediatrics, and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at UC-San Francisco’s Children’s Hospital Click the link below to listen to or download the recording: [...]

UCSF’s Lustig Discusses the Role of Fructose in Pediatric Obesity

9 July 2007 ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Radio National’s The Health Report, with Norman Swan, MD, features an interview with UCSF pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig, MD, who argues that the reason for the obesity epidemic is more than just the calories we eat and lack of exercise. Rather, it’s due to the wide use of [...]

High-fructose corn syrup: What are the concerns?

High-fructose corn syrup seems to be a common ingredient in many foods. What are the concerns about high-fructose corn syrup? Answer from Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D. High-fructose corn syrup is a common sweetener and preservative. High-fructose corn syrup is made by changing the sugar (glucose) in cornstarch to fructose — another form of sugar. The [...]