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Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0

University of California Television (UCTV) · lecture · Watch on YouTube

Nutrition & diet scienceMedicine & infectious disease

What it is

Robert Lustig of UCSF updates his sugar talk, arguing that fructose and processed foods drive obesity and metabolic syndrome through their endocrine effects. It is a roughly 90-minute university lecture.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a follow-up to Lustig's original sugar talk for the metabolic details of fructose.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “I'd highly recommend these two talks by Robert Lustig on the subject.”

    Detailed fructose metabolism and its role in obesity

    akurzon, 2021-02 · Strong recommendation · in “Fructose reprogrammes glutamine-dependent oxidative metabolism to support LPS”

  2. “If carbs are bad, sugar is horrible. Just in case you haven't seen these”

    Lustig on fructose

    pkulak, 2014-05 · Recommendation · in “Always Hungry? Here’s Why”

  3. “Dr. Robert Lustig has put a lot of research into the causes of the obesity crisis.”

    Lustig explains sugar and hormones driving obesity

    halotrope, 2018-02 · Recommendation · in “Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S”

  4. “Robert Lusting has cery intersting book on this, and more specifically the influence of fructose sugar in diet.”

    Lustig on fructose in diet

    mirko22, 2018-05 · Recommendation · in “Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Applying the Health Benefits of Fasting”

  5. “there is a great presentation by Dr. Robert Lustig called”

    Lustig presentation on fructose and behavior

    aficiomaquinas, 2024-05 · Recommendation · in “Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic”

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Topics: robert lustig, sugar, metabolic syndrome, nutrition, endocrinology

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