Dr. Robert Lustig, sitting in his cluttered office in a quiet hall of UCSF's main campus, is sounding glum. It's a few days before the release of his first book, "Fat Chance" - a scientific and ...

(CBS News) If you are what you eat, then what does it mean that the average American consumes 130 pounds of sugar a year? Sanjay Gupta reports on new research showing that beyond weight gain, sugar ...

American eaters love a good villain. Diets that focus on one clear bad guy have gotten traction even as the bad guy has changed: fat, carbohydrates, animal products, cooked food, gluten. And now ...

In his new book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease, endocrinologist and obesity doc Robert Lustig deconstructs the mythology of fat. He says exercise, for ...

We were surprised and disappointed to see this week s issue of Nature offering us The toxic truth about sugar. The commentary, by Dr. Robert Lustig and colleagues, calls for nothing short of a global ...

Fructose intolerance, or fructose malabsorption, is common in children with recurrent or functional abdominal pain, but the condition can be effectively managed with a low-fructose diet, according to ...

The issue of sugar and the role it plays in our health is an ongoing and all-important discussion. We've all heard the stats before: nearly two in three Australian adults are overweight or obese, and ...

Fructose is a form of simple sugar found in foods like fruits, honey and some vegetables. Common table sugar is a combination of equal parts of fructose and another sugar, called glucose. However, in ...

San Antonio, Texas (October 18, 2010) – Fructose intolerance, or fructose malabsorption, is common in children with recurrent or functional abdominal pain, but the condition can be effectively managed ...

We all know to go easy on the sweet stuff, but what actually happens to your system when you indulge? Here, eight ways sugar affects your body. Fructose—the sugar that naturally occurs in fruit and is ...