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Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is Professor emeritus of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is a global leader in advancing #MetabolicHealth.
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Note that cream did not negate the benefits of coffee, but artificial creamers did, because they have emulsifiers that lead to inflammation.
Bottom line, enjoy your coffee without sugar, the way coffee was meant to be consumed
ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...
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It's time to fix the FDA and USDA to reform SNAP to confer health, not harm.
(I contributed to this op-ed; find it on @thehill.com)
thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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SNAP doesn't allow tobacco or alcohol sales, but they subsidize an equally toxic and addictive substance-- sugar. And, did you know that 20% of SNAP dollars go directly to poisonous foods and beverages?
This keeps Big Food afloat with your tax dollars.
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Each is dependent on the other, yet both are "opaque" to the public. That's on purpose-- because the food industry and the government don't want you to know that it's the food processing that's rendered the current concepts of nutrition moot.
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...and we just presented them in Davos this past Wednesday:
sdgtent.com/events/fixin...
Bottom line: UPF's need an extreme makeover. But we don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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The question is-- what to do? Do you just ban them? Can UPF's be made healthy? Well, that's what we did at Kuwaiti Danish Dairy, and we published our results in 2023:
www.frontiersin.org/journals/nut...
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The data are incontrovertible that they are bad for you. While we scientists are still debating the mechanism(s), and there are many (calories, mitochondrial dysfunction, liver fat, microbiome, gut inflammation), the relationship between UPF's and chronic metabolic disease is now airtight.
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Check out eatreal.org and be the change you want to see in the world.
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Our non-profit Eat Real Certified, working with Jennifer Siebel Newsom, got Gavin to ban Red Dye #3 from children's public-school meals in California. Within 3 months, the FDA has now banned Red Dye #3 completely. This is how you get stuff done.
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This is important, since insulin resistance is the basis of virtually all chronic metabolic diseases that Western countries are suffering from.
And fasting insulin is the best proxy we have for mitochondrial dysfunction.
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Can these two principles be implemented on a wide scale? Absolutely. We've done it for an ultraprocessed food company, Kuwaiti Danish Dairy (kddc.com), and we'll be discussing our findings at next steps in Davos on January 22 (lnkd.in/d9sxruVE).
If you're in Davos, make sure you come say hello!