Image Sugars: How do you prefer yours? With fiber (fruit), or processed, as with the honey on the table? Or, maybe if you have some of that tea with it all, you’ll be fine? Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, and reports on industry funding of food research. **Shocker**: The results are not credible! Watch…
Tag: Robert Lustig
FoodWISE and happiness
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on happiness and unhappiness—what’s in that piece of cake? And, offers a rather lengthy talk by Robert Lustig, on the hacking of the American mind.
FoodWISE, selling unhappiness, and the real story on COVID testing
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, on how the food industry sells unhappiness, and offers this article tonight. It’s a difficult read, but it’s about both covid testing and how do we know what we know: covid testing
FoodWISE and dopamine science—and what’s up with a vaccine?
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, reporting on Robert Lustig’s 2017 book on happiness vs pleasure: The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Control of our Bodies and Brains. Then, she offers a very sobering, but well-written, well-reasoned New York Times article on what we can (and cannot) expect with a coronavirus vaccine:…
FoodWISE, fructose, and wildfires
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, about the real problem with fructose—it’s hardly satiating. Listen to her explain why “One (piece of fructose-rich food) is too much and a thousand is not enough.” Then here, how wildfires are devastating farms and farm workers. Image: When fire overtook Dale Smith’s ranch near Monse, Okanogan County, he lost 2,500…
FoodWISE and the bitter truth about sugar
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, about sugar’s bitter truth, referring to pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig. See his virally-popular video.
FoodWISE—is sugar addictive?
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, more on Robert Lustig’s work—is sugar addictive? And what about fructose? It’s easy to find work on this, published by universities—although some may be a little dated, as here: university musings on sugar. FoodWISE has recent references on all discussed in the book. Image: Tarte and cream, from a…
FoodWISE and added sugars
Gigi Berardi reads in FoodWISE about added sugars. For more, see: Robert Lustig on sugar
FoodWISE—what’s the deal with sugar?
Gigi Berardi reads FoodWISE, and begins a discussion of the bitter truth about sugar! This section features the controversial Robert Lustig. What’s the deal with sugar? You can read his work in Nature, here: how toxic is sugar and a interview with NPR, here: fallacies of fat.