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Metabolic Syndrome and Mental Health
METABOLIC SYNDROME AND MENTAL HEALTH Modern health means metabolic health. The main pathway to chronic diseases today is the breakdown of our finely tuned metabolic machinery inside, due to processed food, lifestyle and – mental health? Stress and...
We’ve Been Hacked
Our bodies and minds have been hacked, as Dr. Robert Lustig states in his book, Hacking of the American Mind. One of the big vehicles for hacking us is the food system. Everything we eat moves through an elaborate, multifaceted process that is poorly...
Metabolic Health & Nutrition Across the Life Span
The national Metabolic Health and Nutrition Across the Life Span CME summit June 15-16,2018 has its roots with several team members (Wolfram Alderson, Leslie Lee Sutton, and Dr. Uma Pisharody) at the Institute for Responsible Nutrition, a national...
Hypoglycemia
Sitting in the doctor's office and being told you have type 2 diabetes is a pretty scary moment. It can feel like a prison sentence - or worse. What if there was a sign, evident much earlier in your metabolic life, that there might be a health problem...
Was there ever really a “sugar conspiracy”? published in Science Magazine
RESPONSE – Open Letter to the Editors of Science Magazine, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by Robert Lustig, M.D., M.S.L., Professor Emeritus, UCSF, and Wolfram Alderson, MS., CEO of the Hypoglycemia Support...
The Big DeBunk: The Energy Balance Story is Marketing Mythology
A two-minute ad, "Coming Together," highlights Coca-Cola's "calories in, calories out" message: "Beating obesity will take action by all of us, based on one simple common-sense fact -- all calories count, no matter where they come from, including Coca-Cola...