Dr. Robert Lustig

Dr. Lustig is the author of the NY Times Bestseller “Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease”, and his YouTube speech video called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth” has been viewed over 5 million times. His latest book, “The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains” gets into what any pleasure seeking is doing to us; not just the bad food.

Dr. Lustig’s keynote has many takeaways: You will learn why all calories are not created equal; you will learn, astonishingly, about the record rates of obesity (and childhood obesity!) we are now facing in North America, and how this came to be. Now, with his latest research, it seems that between the sugar, processed food and the new technology, we are addicted now not just in body, but in mind, too. Will they get our souls next? Have Dr. Lustig speak at your next event to find out…

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Biography

Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL

Dr. Lustig is a Member of the Institute of Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, whose research focuses on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. He is currently investigating the contribution of nutritional, neural, hormonal, and genetic influences in the expression of the current obesity epidemic and diabetes both in children and adults. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980, and his Masters of Studies of Law from UC Hastings College of the Law in 2013. Dr. Lustig is the past Chairman of the Ad hoc Obesity Task Force of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, a current member of the Obesity Task Force of The Endocrine Society, and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association of the Bay Area. He is the author of many articles, chapters, and reviews on childhood obesity, including the academic volume “Obesity before birth”, and the popular books “Fat Chance: beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease” and “The Fat Chance Cookbook”. He is also President of The Institute for Responsible Nutrition, a non-profit dedicated to eradicating childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Robert H. Lustig is an American pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) where he is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics.

Speech Topics

Processed food: an experiment that failed
Saving Social Security
The three myths of the food industry
The four myths underlying health care
Sugar: policy vs. politics
Sweetening the pot: rethinking investment around food
The case for societal action to reverse chronic disease
Healthy, wealthy, and wise? The consequences of the Western Diet
Darwin, diet, disease, and dollars
Corporate wealth or public health?
Sugar: the elephant in the kitchen

Speech Topics For Medical Professionals:

Sugar, metabolic syndrome, and cancer
Is sugar toxic beyond its calories?
What is metabolic syndrome, and why are children getting it?
Tooth decay and liver decay: What did the dentists know, and when did they know it?
Dietary factors, NAFLD, and metabolic syndrome
Why sugars hurt Asians more
Targeting insulin in obesity
Is diabesity due to a poison?
The neuroendocrinology of obesity
Sugar, hormones, and addiction