In case you haven’t seen it yet, there’s a video on YouTube of a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” delivered by Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco. The lecture, which runs some 90 minutes and delves into the details of the professor’s clinical observations and research, has been viewed more than a million times to date, and inspired the April 17 New York Times Magazine cover story headlined “Is Sugar Toxic?” We watched it, so you didn’t have to.
5 Highlights From the ‘Toxic Sugar’ Video
In case you haven't seen it yet, there's a video on YouTube of a lecture called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth," delivered by Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, and one of the foremost childhood-obesity researchers in the U.S. The lecture, which runs some 90 minutes and delves into the details of the professor's clinical observations and research, has been viewed more than a million times to date, and inspired the April 17 New York Times Magazine cover story headlined "Is Sugar Toxic?" (More on TIME.com Diet Soda May Not Raise Diabetes Risk After All) Lustig's argument — in short, that sugar is poisonous to the body, not least because it increases obesity — is controversial. Many nutrition experts wouldn't go so far as to call sugar a "toxin" or "poisonous." But, having watched the video, I'm a convert. So, if you haven't got time to sit through it yourself, following are five of the professor's most thought-provoking claims. Next: Sugar vs. High-Fructose Corn Syrup