Webinar: Sickly sweet: The science and policy of fructose overconsumption in America

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America’s’ sweet-laden diet is helping drive obesity and chronic metabolic disease. Join Dr. Robert Lustig, noted pediatrician, neuroendocrinologist and author, as he explores the science behind this phenomenon, as laid out in his new book, Fat Chance. Lustig also addresses America’s fructose addiction as an outgrowth of bad policies and a bad environment. His research reveals how food industry practices lay the groundwork for overconsumption of fructose, how government policy first enabled them, and then more recently turned a blind eye as sugar politics became charged. Stacia Clinton, RD, LDN, chair of the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics will provide a response.   

Co-sponsors:

Collaborative on Health and the Environment

Health Care Without Harm

Healthy Food Action

National Physicians Alliance

San Francisco Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility

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