Episode 5: Robert Lustig, Metabolical

Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and New York Times-bestselling author Dr. Robert Lustig for their discussion of Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, Dr. Lustig's newest book about the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society.
Together, they discuss the relationship between nutrition and non-communicable disease, the dangers of processed foods, and the ways in which the entrenched interests of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Government influence our current healthcare paradigm.

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Footnotes:

• What is Leptin?
• The Role of Leptin in Human Physiology: Emerging Clinical Applications
• Noncommunicable diseases
• Global obesity rates
• Remarks by US First Lady Michelle Obama at the "Let's Move" Action Plan Announcement with Cabinet Secretaries
• Type 2 Diabetes in Children
• The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery
• Fiber
• Activists Just Scored Bog Wins Against ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell
• PepsiCo working on reducing targets for salt, sugar in India
• Snacks for a Fat Planet: PepsiCo takes stock of the obesity epidemic
• How Denise Morrison Took Processed Food Icon Campbell’s On a Fresh Food Buying Spree
• $15 Million Settlement in Post Cereal Lawsuit

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