Robert Lustig

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Robert Lustig

Robert H. Lustig (* 1957 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American pediatrician and professor of neuroendocrinology.

Life

Robert Lustig grew up in Brooklyn (New York) and attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan .

He is Professor of Neuroendocrinology at the University of California at San Francisco. He became widely known for his research on the connection between obesity and sugar , in particular fructose (fruit sugar), which has been used en masse in the industrially produced form as high fructose corn syrup since around 1980.

Robert Lustig lives in San Francisco, is married and has two daughters.

Education and professional activity

He graduated from MIT with a bachelor's degree in 1976 and received a doctorate in medicine from Cornell University in 1980. He then spent six years researching neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University in New York. Since 2001 he has worked at the University of California in San Francisco. Lustig has written over 85 scientific articles and chapters on 45 books. In addition, he obtained a master's degree in law from Hastings College of the Law (University of California, San Francisco) in 2013.

In 2013 he founded the "Institute for Responsible Nutrition", a non-profit organization for worldwide education about the metabolic syndrome and for the fight against its consequences.

Act

Robert Lustig became known to the general public through a 2009 talk titled Sugar: The Bitter Truth , which was viewed by millions of people on YouTube. His lecture from July 2013 on the subject of fructose 2.0 offered an in-depth look . He and his team have shown that the increase in sugar consumption and the increase in type 2 diabetes worldwide are clearly related.

He reissued the book Pure, White and Deadly by John Yudkin in 2012 with its own foreword.

In his testimony, he refers to the evidence of biochemists that the metabolism of fructose, a component of household sugar, is processed differently in the liver than with glucose. Like galactose , fructose can only be metabolized in the liver cells . Increased fructose consumption leads to fatty liver - comparable to the effect of increased alcohol consumption. This leads to obesity in a large part of the population .

In the US, half of all health care spending is now being used to treat patients with diabetes, and at current rates of increase, it will be the full budget by 2025. In Lustig's opinion, this alone results in a political mandate to regulate sugar. As early as 2009, the American Heart Association therefore issued the recommendation that the daily intake of sugar should be reduced to 9 teaspoons or 150 kcal per day (men) and 6 teaspoons or 100 kcal per day (women) (instead of the common 22 teaspoons in the US).

Publications (selection)

  • Obesity Before Birth: Maternal and Prenatal Influences on the Offspring. Boston: Springer Science, 2010. ISBN 978-1441970336
  • Fat Chance: Beating the Odds against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease. New York: Hudson Street Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1594631009
  • Chapter 2 "The Neuroendocrine Control of Energy Balance" in Contemporary Endocrinology ISBN 978-1-60327-873-7
  • with R. Weiss, AA Bremer: What is metabolic syndrome, and why are children getting it? In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences , 1281, April 2013, 123-140. doi : 10.1111 / nyas.12030 . PMC 3715098 (free full text)
  • Robert H. Lustig, Laura A. Schmidt & Claire D. Brindis: The toxic truth about sugar , in: Nature volume 482, pages 27–29 February 2, 2012. (Comment in Nature)

Web links

Commons : Robert Lustig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ http://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.lustig
  2. ↑ http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0057873
  3. ↑ JOHN YUDKIN: Pure, White and Deadly HOW SUGAR IS KILLING US AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO STOP IT, Penguin, 2012, ISBN 978-0-241-96528-3
  4. ↑ http://advances.nutrition.org/content/4/2/226.full.pdf+html
  5. ↑ http://www.uctv.tv/shows/Fat-Chance-Fructose-2-0-25641
  6. ↑ http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/120/11/1011
personal data
SURNAME Funny, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lustig, Robert H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pediatrician and professor of neuroendocrinology
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York