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Building a Healthy Society and Workforce: Awareness and Prevention of Diabetes |
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1.8 Type 2 Diabetes Is a Processed Food Disease
Source: CrossFit: The Journal, United States (date of information: 2017)
Links (video): Dr Lustig: Type 2 Diabetes Is a “Processed Food Disease”(abridged version)
Dr Lustig: Type 2 Diabetes Is a “Processed Food Disease”(full version)
Application/Key learning points: Robert Lustig is an endocrinologist and professor of paediatrics at the University of California-San Francisco. In this interview, he explains the toxicity of sugar, outlines what happens following sugar consumption, and offers suggestions for addressing the ongoing sugar crisis. “Sugar is toxic,” says Lustig. “It proffers a set of biochemical alterations that are detrimental to human health—unrelated to its calories.” In this way, sugar resembles alcohol, and chronic metabolic diseases associated with alcohol are becoming prevalent in children with high-sugar diets. Lustig argues that the food industry has had a negative influence on nutrition science for the last 45 years, which in turn has had a negative impact on paediatric medicine in the United States. People still believe a healthy diet is attained by regulating calories and saturated fat. This misconception has led to a rise in chronic metabolic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes in adult and youth populations. Lustig outlines the necessary steps for enacting a society-wide intervention. These steps include educating the public, approaching sugar as an addictive substance and calling Type 2 diabetes what it is—the “processed food disease.”
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