Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL, is the editor of the academic volume Obesity Before Birth and the internationally acclaimed author of the popular works Fat Chance, Sugar Has 56 Names, The Fat Chance Cookbook, and The Hacking of the American Mind. He is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. He lectures globally and consults with numerous medical societies and policy organizations to improve population health. He lives with his family in San Francisco.
"Robert Lustig has treated the casualties, and now he's going after
the perpetrators." - Raj Patel, PhD, social activist and author of
Stuffed and Starved, History of the World in Seven Cheap Things,
and Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.
"Rob Lustig does it again...Metabolical is an eye-opener about our
modern food environment, health-care system, and the dire straits
the next generation is headed in if we don't make some serious
systemic changes in the way we think about nutrition. " - Nicole
Avena, PhD, author of What to Eat When You Want to Get Pregnant
"Metabolical lays bare the depth of the relationship between the
recent and profound perversion of the human diet and its
overwhelming health consequences...Manufactured food is killing
humanity. And real food, as Lustig makes clear, is the only right
choice for our health, our food supply, our wallets, and our
planet." - David Perlmutter, MD, Fellow, American College of
Nutrition, Author, #1 New York Times bestseller of Grain Brain and
Brain Wash
"We're not just eating ourselves to death, we're eating the planet
to death. Metabolical explains why, and why we've been so impotent
at dealing with both." - Katie Couric, journalist
"A modern Copernicus, Dr. Robert Lustig has provided both the
expertise to recognize the charade of processed food and the
courage to tell the truth." - Dale E. Bredesen, MD, professor and
author of the New York Times bestseller, The End of Alzheimer's
"A beautifully written exposé of a broken system that begs to be
repaired." - Kelly D. Brownell, PhD, Director, World Food Policy
Center and Dean Emeritus, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke
University
"Metabolical shows that not all calories are created equal, an
insight that if acted upon could save countless lives." - Robert N.
Proctor, PhD, Professor of the History of Science, Stanford
University, and author of Golden Holocaust: Origins of the
Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition.
"Metabolical offers a meticulous analysis of current science on
nutrition and health; and an indictment of processed food, the food
industry, and the actors who conspire to keep our food unhealthy."
- Emily M. Broad Leib, JD, Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty
Director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School
"This book will open your eyes to a powerful food industry that is
failing in its core task." - Jeffrey D. Sachs, PhD, University
Professor at Columbia University President of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Solutions Network
"The authoritative, no-hold-barred analysis of what food does for
health, versus what the food industry does for disease." - Mark
Bittman, food writer and author of Animal, Vegetable, Junk
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