Robert Lustig, MD -A Second Look: Sugar: No Ordinary Commodity- (Ancestral Health Today Episode 032)

On today’s episode we bring you a special presentation by Robert Lustig, MD from the ancestral health symposium. All of our past AHS presentations can be found on our CZcams channel / @ancestryfoundation
Abstract:
Substances of abuse qualify for regulation if they satisfy four criteria: unavoidability, toxicity, abuse, and negative impact on society. The carbohydrate fructose is ubiquitous, impacts health negatively beyond its caloric equivalent, and produces a "vicious cycle of consumption and metabolic disease in large quantities, akin to that seen with ethanol.
It is time for a paradigm shift in obesity science and policy; one in which sugar, like alcohol, is not treated as an ordinary commodity on the open market. Efforts to reduce fructose consumption should be informed by the extensive body of evidence from international experience and research on alcohol policy.
This evidence points to inadequacy of public information and education programs, but rather supports taxation and other controls on marketing and distribution, including taxation and other controls on marketing and distribution, including access and zoning restrictions.
At the national level, removal of fructose from the Food and Drug Administration's GRAS list, the abatement of federal corn subsidies, and cessation of deregulation of farmers' crop plantings are among the most promising policy interventions to address the rising rates of chronic metabolic disease.
Bio:
Robert H. Lustig, M.D. is Professor of Pediatrics, in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. His research focuses on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. Dr. Lustig is the past Chairman of the Ad hoc Obesity Task Force of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, a current member of the Obesity Task Force of The Endocrine Society, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association of the Bay Area. His new book Fat Chance: beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease is due to be released in January 2013.

[@danielpincus221]

This is from something like 10 years ago. All of us would appreciate knowing the date and the location of such a presentation.

[@TyRaff]

I agree, he looks relatively young in this. I really dislike when YT channels upload old videos fir the sake of the algorithm.

[@germank7924]

@@TyRaff you're being silly, these people are uploading their archive, show some respect and intelligence!

[@carlwatts1230]

I appreciate re-uploads of high signal material but I agree they should include a timestamp. Very annoying. It also isn't fair to Lustig. He should get the credit that comes with being early as well as the allowance for potential changes in his point of view since then. People don't get to make these judgements if they don't know the time of publishing and many newcomers to this area of human thought and study will probably assume it is a recent presentation.

[@carlwatts1230]

There is some indication of the year of publishing in the video description:
"... His new book Fat Chance: beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease is due to be released in January 2013."
However why not include the year, month and day or even just the year in the video title and in the video description? I don't see a good reason not to, and good reasons to do it.

[@SonnyDarvishzadeh]

In the very first slide at 0:09, it stated August 11, 2012. That's almost 12 years ago.

[@peterruddick1952]

Instead of gun control as an example of a major social problem initiative he should have said treatment of mental illness

[@billrobinson198]

He's still stuck on the falsehood that fiber is necessary.

[@SonnyDarvishzadeh]

This presentation is from August 2012. Is he then (2012) or now (2024) still stuck in that mindset?

[@billrobinson198]

@@SonnyDarvishzadeh I'm only going by what he
said here, and this video was just put up recently.
Do you have anything more recent from him that
disputes it?

[@barrysmith8193]

And you’re still stuck on incorrect information.

[@billrobinson198]

@@barrysmith8193 And you have some evidence that
he has changed his view on fiber? Let us know.