Day: February 14, 2013

What better day to write about sugar addiction, than Valentine’s. After hearing Dr. Robert Lustig on NPR’s Science Friday, I had the opportunity to see him speak live at a Community Education event at my children’s school last week. Oh boy, he is an angry man and for all the right reasons. And with his new book “Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease”, he is sharing his knowledge with the wider population as he wants us to be angry, too. Angry at what the big food companies, the FDA, the Surgeon General, the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institute of Health have done, or not done, as the case may be, to protect consumers from (unintentionally) destroying their health. The evening was packed with scientific data, enough to show us that his theory is scientifically founded. After all, he is Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at UCSF and Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program, so he is qualified to understand and interpret the data. Here are my take-aways from the evening. Come and cook with us! Continue reading “Fat Chance!”