Whats really making people fat (part 1)
The hazards of sugar!
The rise of obesity is a serious health problem in our society. It is usually seen as a character flaw, as lack of self control and laziness. It is most often blamed on too much eating and not enough exercising, but Robert Lustig, MD, a UCSF pediatric neuroendocrinologist, brings us more research and insight to this pervasive problem.
Behaviors that some might refer to as gluttony and sloth are merely consequences of the true cause of the obesity and metabolic epidemic, Lustig says. Food was abundant 30 years ago, before obesity’s rapid rise in the population. The true problem is the increase in sugar consumption, more specifically, fructose consumption. Sugar both drives fat storage and hyperinsulemia which chronically elevated, makes the brain think it is hungry by interfering with the leptin feedback loop , setting up a “vicious cycle,” according to Lustig.
The problematic Fructose is a component of the two most popular sugars. One is table sugar — sucrose. The other is high-fructose corn syrup. High-fructose corn syrup has become ubiquitous! It is found in soda pop, soft drinks, and juice drinks as well as most other processed foods, including children’s foods. Suggested exercise:Spend a day checking out food labels on the grocery shelves and also in your kitchen pantry.
Watch this series and realize the truth about sugars in our diet.
Part one of nine
Thank you: Robert Lustig, MD, a UCSF pediatric neuroendocrinologist, mercola.com, youtube.com
