147 - Changing minds about food and diets with Dr Robert Lustig

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Medicine

4.8 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Dr Robert Lustig is Professor emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. He specialises in the field of neuroendocrinology and his research and clinical practice focuses on childhood obesity and diabetes. Dr Lustig has led a global discussion of metabolic health and nutrition, exposing some of the leading myths that underlie the current problem of diet-related disease. He is the author of several books including the books Fat Chance and Metabolical: The truth about processed food and how it poisons people and the planet. In this episode, Dr Lustig talks to Dr Louise Newson about the influence of sugar, fats, and processed foods on our brains and health, changing minds of the public and health professionals and challenging the food industry. And – just as with changing public perception of HRT – challenging misconceptions about sugar and processed food starts with education. Dr Lustig’s 3 tips to improve your diet: Yoghurt is good but make sure it doesn’t have any added sugar Juice is not healthy. Fruit is healthy and has fibre which is the good part. It’s food for your microbiome. Trans fats are not good for you at all, try and avoid them at all costs including watching what oils you cook with. Dr Lustig’s website is https://robertlustig.com/ and you can find out more about all his books here.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Louise Newsome and welcome to my podcast. I'm a GP and menopause specialist and I run the Newsome Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre here in Stratford-Bron-Avon. I'm also the founder of the Menopause charity and the Menopause support app called Balance.
0:29.9	On the podcast, I will be joined each week by an exciting guest to help provide evidence-based
0:36.5	information and advice about both the perimenopause and the
0:40.9	menopause. So today I'm interviewing someone from across the pond in America, someone who I've
0:50.4	been following without him realizing for many years actually. And so I'm very excited to introduce to you, Robert Lustig from America.
0:58.8	So thank you so much today for joining me.
1:01.8	Well, thank you so much for having me, Louise.
1:03.9	Well, I have them was.
1:04.9	I've always been interested in nutrition.
1:07.2	And it's something that as a medic I got taught very little about actually and I don't think
1:12.5	things have really changed over the last 25 years or so and I read your book in 2013 Fat Chance
1:18.9	it also says on the title the bitter truth about sugar and I thought sugar what's sugar
1:25.9	fat how is that connected?
1:28.2	I didn't really know much then.
1:30.1	I hate to tell that.
1:31.3	And I read your book.
1:32.8	I remember starting reading it in the bath, actually.
1:35.0	And I had such a cold bath at the end because I couldn't put it down.
1:38.4	And everything you said made so much sense.
1:40.7	And then I got really crossed because I thought, why hadn't anyone told me this before?
1:45.2	And so you have been so instrumental in even the way that I eat, the way my children eat,
1:50.0	the way I help patients, actually. And it's incredible. And then you've just brought out your most
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