Robert Lustig - Speak to the ventriloquist, not the dummy

                                                                           

Dr Robert Lustig has fostered a global discussion of metabolic health and nutrition. He speaks with us abut why you should "speak to the ventriloquist and not the dummy", how "pleasure is not happiness", how "90% of the work is done in 10% of the time" and more. Hosted by Duff Watkins.

About Robert Lustig

Dr. Robert Lustig is Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig has become a leading public health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases.

 

In his New York Times bestselling book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processes Food, Obesity, and Disease, Robert documents both the science and the politics that have led to the current pandemic of obesity and chronic disease. In the Fat Chance Cookbook (available for free), Robert provides practical examples for applying healthy eating principles with recipes by Cindy Gershen.

 

Robert has fostered a global discussion of metabolic health and nutrition, exposing some of the leading myths that underlie the current pandemic of diet-related disease. He believes the food business, by pushing processed food loaded with sugar, has hacked our bodies and minds to pursue pleasure instead of happiness; fostering today’s epidemics of addiction and depression. Yet by focusing on real food, we can beat the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease. His latest book Metabolical weaves the interconnected strands of nutrition, health/disease, medicine, environment, and society into a completely new fabric by proving on a scientific basis a series of iconoclastic revelations.

Episode Notes

Lesson 1: Self-soothing is required, since no one else will 10m 29s.

Lesson 2: Pleasure is not happiness — the more pleasure you seek, the more unhappy you get 13m 04s.

Lesson 3: Anxiety is excitement about the future; but the future never comes 19m 25s.

Lesson 4: You know more than everybody else, so be humbler than everybody else 24m 56s.

Lesson 5: Institutions don’t love you back 33m 11s.

Lesson 6: First-class people hire first-class people; second-class people hire third-class people35m 53s.

Lesson 7: Speak to the ventriloquist, not the dummy 37m 38s.

Lesson 8: 90% of the work gets done in 10% of the time 39m 14s.

Lesson 9: Marketing uses information to espouse your point of view; propaganda uses disinformation to espouse your point of view 40m 39s.

Lesson 10: There is only one dogma, and that is, there is no dogma 43m 08s.