Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Robert Lustig, MD; Laura ...

Lustig’s popularity can partially be attributed to his message that obesity is the result of a broken food system—not laziness or gluttony. For many people, who’ve been told for years that if they ...

Robert Lustig, MD, MSL, warns that sugary baby foods, rising birth weights, and ultraprocessed school meals are fueling long-term health risks in children. In a recent interview, Robert Lustig, MD, ...

Sugar consumption is driving disease and obesity epidemics in the U.S. and should be regulated like tobacco and alcohol, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. In an ...

How did we get so fat, so fast? The debut episode of this 7-part series debunks the theory that obesity only affects the “gluttons and sloths” among us and is, in fact, a public health problem that ...

Robert H. Lustig (born 1957) is an American pediatric endocrinologist. He is Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he ...