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Mase, I find it interesting that you would like us to believe this man is a charlatan.  Would you please show me what credentials you have to make such a statement.

This is Lustig's bio from wikipedia,

Robert H. Lustig, MD

 

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, in the Division of Endocrinology Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at UCSF

Dr. Lustig is a nationally-recognized authority in the field of neuroendocrinology, with a specific emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. He is currently investigating the contribution of biochemical, neural, hormonal, and genetic influences in the expression of the current obesity epidemic both in children and adults. He has defined a syndrome of vagally-mediated beta-cell hyperactivity which leads to insulin hypersecretion and obesity, and which is treatable by insulin suppression. This phenomenon may occur in up to 20% of the obese population. He is interested in the hypothalamic signal transduction of insulin and leptin, and how these two systems interact. He is studying the cardiovascular morbidity associated with hyperinsulinemia, and developing methods to evaluate and prevent this phenomenon in children. He is also analyzing the contribution of the autonomic nervous system to insulin secretion and insulin resistance in obese children, and the utility of assessing insulin dynamics in targeting obesity therapy.

Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College. He performed his pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital, and his clinical fellowship at UCSF. From there, he spent six years as a post-doctoral fellow in neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University in New York.

Dr. Lustig has authored over 70 research articles and 35 chapters.  He is the Chairman of the Obesity Task Force of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, a member of the Obesity Task force of The Endocrine Society, and on the Steering Committee of the International Endocrine Alliance to Combat Obesity. 

The video we have asked people to watch is him in his role as a teaching professor at the University of Cal. San Francisco explaining his concerns with HFCS. 

I would like to believe he knows a little more about the subject of HFCS and how our body processes it compared to other sugars than you do.

 

[Mase]

This guy has some pretty impressive credentials too:

Michael F. Jacobson (b. 1943), who holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-founded the Center for Science in the Public Interest in 1971, along with two fellow scientists he met while working at the Center for the Study of Responsive Law. When his colleagues left CSPI in 1977, Jacobson served as executive director.[1] Today, Jacobson sits as secretary on the board of directors of the organization.[2] He has been a national leader in the movement to require nutrition labels on all foods and most beverages to help consumers make informed decisions about what to consume. It was Jacobson who coined the now widely used phrases "junk food"[3] and "empty calorie".

Michael Jacobson - Center for Science in the Public Interest

Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), is the undisputed leader of America’s nutritional scolds. From fettuccine alfredo to soda to french fries, Jacobson is more than willing to use junk science and sensationalism to scare Americans about the food they eat. He notes that “CSPI is proud about finding something wrong with practically everything.”

Jacobson founded CSPI in 1971 with two co-workers from Ralph Nader’s Center for the Study of Responsive Law, so it’s no surprise that he is a strong supporter of fast-food lawsuits. He hopes that “regulation through litigation” will result in limits on children’s access to food advertising, extra taxes on foods he considers unhealthy, and government-mandated nutritional information on restaurant menus all across America.

But he has a PhD in Microbiology from friggin MIT. He must know what he's talking about, right? So what if he's a Naderite and wants to tell you how to live your life....just look at his credentials. Truly a resume conservatives can embrace.

I would like to believe he knows a little more about the subject of HFCS and how our body processes it compared to other sugars than you do.

I guarantee you I've had more training in food science and nutrition than Dr. Lustig. He said some incredibly ignorant things in his video. I can't explain why he said such things but there is no excuse for someone with his vitae to be making such blunders. I don't know his motivations, but he is spreading nonsense based on junk science. There is a lot of it going around these days.