Questions tagged [robert-lustig]
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How bitter is Robert Lustig's "Bitter Truth" about sugar?
A couple of months ago I watched the talk "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" by endocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig on YouTube. The overall tone of the talk raised a couple of red flags; it sounded a little too much like conspiracy mongering for my taste, but…
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Do high-fat diets causes heart disease?
This article in The Guardian alleges that the nutritional science establishment has spent the last 4 decades claiming that fatty diets cause heart disease when in fact sugar is largely to blame. The article presents this as a case of eminence-based…
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Does fructose release a high number of oxygen radicals and damage cells?
I stumbled upon the following claim in the article "Fructose: the poison index" in the Guardian, written by Dr Robert Lustig.
Fructose causes seven times as much cell damage as does glucose,
because it binds to cellular proteins seven times…
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