by Michael O'Neill | Jun 2, 2013 | video
Looks like Noam Chomsky is clued in to the dangers of sugar. Check out the 35 second mark of his talk, where he compares the lethality of marijuana vs. tobacco vs. sugar: Nothing new for anyone likely to be reading this site, but it’s nice to see that this is...
by Michael O'Neill | Apr 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Yesterday I posted a video from a Robert Lustig presentation where a woman who claimed to be a former brand manager for Fruity Pebbles spoke, in tears, about how parents in the focus groups she attended felt good about feeding their children Fruity Pebbles because...
by Michael O'Neill | Apr 6, 2013 | video
There’s no doubt that Robert Lustig has a powerful (though not new) message, and he’s gaining an increasingly broad audience for his message. More and more people are making the connection between excess sugar (carbohydrate) consumption and obesity,...
by Michael O'Neill | Mar 30, 2013 | video
Let’s round out the week with a little levity, shall we? Robert Lustig sure does make the rounds, and last night he was the guest on The Colbert Report to report his new book, Fat Chance. There’s really not much new here. It’s entertaining, but most...
by katkinsk | Feb 3, 2013 | research, Uncategorized
The world is becoming a sweeter place… At least in a very literal sense. In The Sweetening of the World’s Diet, Popkin and Nielsen explore the upward trend of caloric sweeteners in our lives. The article first lays out some very basic evidence: High consumption...
