Back on August 7, I blogged a post about the dangers of viewing fruit juice as a healthy food product due to the high sugar content of juice. In it I mentioned the views of pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Robert Lustig of the University of California, San Francisco, who has become a vocal opponent of feeding juice to kids. Well, today I see he has popped up on another website due to other comments he has made about the foods Americans feed their children and the dangers of Western diets in general.In a nutshell, Lustig's view is that the food industry dooms children to obesity. We all know that today's kids are consuming very high-cal (especially high-fructose), low-fiber diets. However, Lustig goes a step further and argues that such diets create a "toxic environment," leading to hormonal imbalances which result in overeating. The imbalances, Lustig says, result from complex insulin-related chemical interactions within the body that shut down the body's normal cues on when to eat and when not to eat. Until society in general puts pressure on the food industry, Lustig warns, the problem of childhood obestiy (and diabetes) will continue to worsen.
Lustig's findings have been published in Nature, Clinical Practice, Endocrinology and Metabolism.
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