Sugar: Hiding in plain sight - Robert Lustig
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While sugar is easy to spot in candy, soft
drinks and ice cream, it also hides out in foods you might not expect --
including peanut butter, pasta sauce and even bologna! Robert Lustig
decodes confusing labels and sugar's many aliases to help determine just
how much of that sweet carbohydrate makes its way into our diets.
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For all the TED-Ed Lessons about food (and eating it too), check out this series: You are what you eat.
Dr. Lustig assesses the health dangers of sugar and its link to Type 2 diabetes and the global obesity epidemic. He is the author of several books and many articles on childhood obesity, including the recent "Obesity Before Birth."
Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, spoke to students at the University of California Hastings Law School, where he studied food policy law. Dr. Lustig claimed that sugar is the reason for the high percentage of Americans who are obese, and that politics are preventing sound food policy.
See more about Robert Lustig here.
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- Educator Robert Lustig
- Director Bill Keaggy
- Artist Chris Roettger
- Animator Jacob Heberlie, Eric DeFord
- Writer Shawn Gauthier
- Narrator Michelle Snow
