Fat Chance

Robert H. Lustig, MD

It's not calories or willpower — it's sugar. Fructose is metabolized like alcohol, driving fatty liver, insulin resistance, and a broken appetite system.

A pediatric endocrinologist's case that sugar — specifically fructose — is a chronic toxin driving the obesity and metabolic-disease epidemic, and that the food industry and simplistic "eat less, move more" advice have obscured it.