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EventsProfessor Lustig: “Insulin drives all of the behaviors seen in obesity”
in Diabetes, Dr. Robert Lustig, Insulin, Real food, Sugar/fructose, The obesity epidemic 
The only way to fight the diabesity epidemic effectively is to switch to a low-sugar diet with real food, argues Professor Robert Lustig. That way your insulin (the fat-storing hormone) dramatically drops and you can lose weight effortlessly.
In contrast to popular false beliefs, weight loss and health should not be a constant battle uphill through calorie restriction, which simply doesn’t work:
Following current dietary advice is counterintuitive to achieving a healthy weight.
The reason is the myth of energy balance. If you believe this, then you believe that obesity is a physics problem; too much energy in, too little energy out. Energy balance assumes that all calories are equal, no matter where they come from. Rather, obesity is about energy deposition into fat tissue. Obesity is a biochemistry problem, and where those nutrients came from determine where they go in the body. It’s called nutritional biochemistry and it shows that all calories are not created equal.
The Sydney Morning Herald: Dietary Factions Are Hurting the Fight Against Obesity
If you prefer to watch Professor Lustig discuss the issue in a new interview, check out the link below at 5:21:
ABC News: The Damage Sugar Does to Us
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carbohydrates turn to sugar in the body. He
says on page 69 of his book that he cannot
figure out how to lose the 40 pounds he gained
during his residency decades ago. That is
because he cannot figure out that all carbs
turn to sugar when you eat them.
He says that sugar is an "additive" to food. Yet a
glass of orange juice is sugar without having
any sugar added. This is a distraction. It's
carbs. Sugar or not, carbs turn to sugar in the body.
In fact right in your mouth. That means potatoes,
rice, bread (sugar added or not), corn, all turn to sugar
whether "processed" or not.
Interestingly, he has changed his tune a small bit
recently to saying that insulin is the culprit. That's
funny, because his previous demon from his
recent studies was that it was the fructose that
was causing the metabolic damage in the children
he gave various foodstuffs to. Fructose creates
no insulin response. Glucose is the thing that
causes the highest insulin response. He seems
to be confused on this issue and he doesn't get it.
It's carbs, people. Carbs.
Does he have a clue about thermodynamic?
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-energy-balance-equation...