How sugar is metabolized in the body.
Dr. Robert Lustig illustrates the overabundance of sugar in today’s processed convenience foods and explains how our bodies metabolize these sugars in the same way as alcohol or other toxins, causing damage to the liver and other organs.
- Episode 1: An Epidemic for Every Body
- Episode 2: Sickeningly Sweet
- Episode 3: Hunger and Hormones – A Vicious Cycle
- Episode 4: Sugar – A Sweet Addiction
- Episode 5: Generation XL
- Episode 6: A Fast-Paced, Fast Food Life
- Episode 7: Drugs, Cigarettes, Alcohol… and Sugar?
- Diet and Lifestyle Tips from UCSF Experts (Extra)
- Four Sweet Tips from Dr. Lustig (Extra)
- The Complete Skinny on Obesity (all episodes in one video)
- Sugar: The Bitter Truth (The viral video that inspired creation of the series “The Skinny on Obesity”)
