UCSF Obesity Programs

December 17, 2010 By Bellyfat Central Staff Leave a Comment

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 calories per pound = 15.6 pounds per year increase in weight. It’s not the fats — it’s the carbohydrates that are making us fat.
The Coca Cola conspiracy: The first bottles of Coke were 6.5 ounces. They have progressively gotten bigger over time and the norm is now 20 ounces (which is actually 2.5 servings and is = to 26 additional pounds of weight per year), although you can buy a 44 ounce size of soda that will pack on approximately 57 pounds of excess weight.
Currently we are all consuming 63 pounds of High Fructose Corn Syrup per year. This product was introduced to food manufacturing in the early 1970′s. Shockingly, most food products today contain HFCS.

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