by Alice and Fred Ottoboni | Nov 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I started work as Public Health Toxicologist with the California Department of Public Health a little more than fifty years ago, the word “toxic” was seldom heard much less used as a topic of conversation. In recent years, the word has been discovered and become...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 27, 2013 | news
Just a quick note to point to Robert Lustig’s recent article in The Guardian: Fructose: The Poison Index. It’s typical Lustig. Written on the occasion of The European Food and Safety Agency’s (EFSA) ruling that allows food processors and mongers to...
by Michael O'Neill | Oct 25, 2013 | video
Robert Lustig attempts to reprise his viral hit, Sugar the Bitter Truth with a new installment. This one borrows part of the title from his book: “Fat Chance: Fructose 2.0”. As you might expect, it’s a pretty darn good view. Favorite quote? How...
by Michael O'Neill | Jul 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
A new article on sugar toxicity is published in Scientific American (and syndicated in Salon) the other day. It starts off strong with a recapitulation of the familiar: Today, we add sugar in one form or another to the majority of processed foods we eat—everything...
by Michael O'Neill | Feb 1, 2013 | research
Ashton Kutcher has been in the news a lot recently. Normally this is something well worth ignoring, but in this instance it’s interesting: He’s been promoting the new Steve Jobs movie (in which he plays Steve Jobs) by explaining how he was hospitalized...
