November 9, 2016
Interview with Dr. Robert Lustig, author of the book Fat Chance
Mike Carruthers: Americans are heavier than ever before and you probably believe it’s because we eat too much fat and too many calories in our diet.
Dr. Robert Lustig: Fat is not the issue. We were told that for years but fat is not the issue.
Pediatric Endocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig, author of the book Fat Chance…
The reason that fat took on a life on its own is because of the work of Ancel Keys back in the 1970’s who basically said that dietary fat correlated with cardiovascular disease. However that work has now been disproven.
The problem and what is different today about our diet is all the excess sugar.
We have data that shows that sugar is 11 times more potent than total calories in inducing diabetes around the world over the last decade. So first of all you have to recognize what sugar is. There are 56 names for sugar, you know the obvious ones but did you know there were 56? And you need to know all of them because they use all of them.
Sugar causes your insulin levels to rise and that tells your body to store fat so the solution is to reduce the amount of sugar you eat.
That would be smart. The question is how do you do that? And the easiest answer to that – eat real food. Processed food is the problem, for 5 million years we ate real food and had no problem. It’s only when we switched to processed food back in the 60tys and 70tys where this problem came up.
