(Community Matters) from Politico’s Playbook
DRIVING THE CONVERSATION – “Is sugar toxic? … New studies suggest sugar contributes to heart disease and cancer – ’60 Minutes’ Sunday”: “Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California [at San Francisco], believes the high amount of sugar in the American diet, much of it in processed foods, is killing us. And as Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports, new studies seem to support his theory that sugar is toxic … [T]he liver gets overloaded with fructose and converts come of it into fat, which gets into the bloodstream to create ‘small dense LDL,’ the kind of LDL that forms plaque in arteries. The irony here is that for precisely that reason – avoiding heart disease – a government commission in the 1970s mandated that we lower our fat consumption. ‘ When you take the fat out of food, it tastes like cardboard,’ says Dr. Lustig. ‘And the food industry knew that, so they replaced it with sugar…and guess what? Heart disease, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and death are skyrocketing.” Text Video
more: April 2011 NYT
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