The Skinny on Obesity (Ep. 1): An Epidemic for Every Body
3/11/2014; 12 minutes
How did we get so fat, so fast? The debut episode of this 7-part series debunks the theory that obesity only affects the "gluttons and sloths" among us and is, in fact, a public health problem that impacts everyone. (#23305)
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Fructose: Metabolic, Hedonic, and Societal Parallels with Ethanol, by Robert H. Lustig (Journal of the American Dietetic Association, September 2010)- Public Health: The Toxic Truth About Sugar (Nature article by Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt and Claire Brindis)
The Fructose Epidemic, by Robert H. Lustig (The Bariatrician, June 2009)
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