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Robert H. Lustig (born 1957) is an American pediatric endocrinologist. He is professor emeritus of pediatrics in the division of endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he specialized in neuroendocrinology and childhood obesity. He is also director of UCSF's WATCH program (Weight Assessment for Teen and Child ...
In 2009 Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist of the University of California, San Francisco, with a special interest in childhood obesity, made a video, Sugar: The Bitter Truth. [8] Lustig and his colleagues had discovered, independently of Yudkin's work, that sugar has serious deleterious effects, particularly in the etiology of diabetes ...
Pure, White and Deadly is a 1972 book by John Yudkin, a British nutritionist and former Chair of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London. [1] Published in New York, it was the first publication by a scientist to anticipate the adverse health effects, especially in relation to obesity and heart disease, of the public's increased sugar consumption.
Nora Lustig, Argentinian professor of Latin American economics; Peter Lustig (1937–2016), German television presenter and author of children's books; Robin Lustig (born 1948), British radio broadcaster; Robert H. Lustig, American professor of clinical pediatrics, expert on obesity and sugar; Victor Lustig (1890–1947), Czech-born con artist
Gary Taubes (born April 30, 1956) is an American journalist, writer, and low-carbohydrate / high-fat (LCHF) diet advocate. His central claim is that carbohydrates, especially sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, overstimulate the secretion of insulin, causing the body to store fat in fat cells and the liver, and that it is primarily a high level of dietary carbohydrate consumption that accounts ...
Guy Richard Godfrey Mackarness (17 August 1916 – 18 March 1996) [1] was a British psychiatrist and low-carbohydrate diet writer. He is best known for his book Eat Fat and Grow Slim, published in 1958. [2]
Harriet Hall has written that the book describing the diet is a "puerile effort" in comparison to Gary Taube's book Good Calories, Bad Calories which at least attempted to have a scientific basis. [1] The diet has been recommended by Joseph Mercola. Hall writes that "neither Mercola nor Rosedale can be recommended to anyone who is interested in ...
Fung is an author of many low-carbohydrate diet books. [7] His first book, The Complete Guide to Fasting, [8] co-authored by Jimmy Moore was published in fall 2016 [9] and offered insight to all aspects of fasting culture. [10] The Obesity Code and The Diabetes Code were subsequently published in 2016 and 2018.