Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig is a pediatric neuroendocrinologist and a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. He is former chairman of the obesity task force of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society and the author of Fat Chance and The Fat Chance Cookbook.

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The Sugar-Addiction Taboo

When can you call a food addictive?
- Robert H. Lustig
- January 2, 2014
The Most Unhappy of Pleasures: This Is Your Brain on Sugar

By all estimates, obese people are not happy. The question is whether their unhappiness is a cause or a result of their obesity. We don't know.
- Robert H. Lustig
- February 21, 2012

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Robert H. Lustig

The Sugar-Addiction Taboo

The Most Unhappy of Pleasures: This Is Your Brain on Sugar