UC Berkeley NewsCenter » Health Matters http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 21 May 2013 23:24:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Galloping gastronome on a slow-food mission http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/26/persons-of-interest-kristen-rasmussen/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/26/persons-of-interest-kristen-rasmussen/#comments Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:30:50 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28796 Galloping gastronome on a slow-food missionSustainable-food evangelist Kristen Rasmussen, now teaching nutritional science, wants to change how we think about food, cooking and life.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/07/26/persons-of-interest-kristen-rasmussen/feed/ 0 Sugar: UCSF’s Lustig on why we love it, and how it’s killing us http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/04/robert-lustig-the-guy-on-obesity-speaking-may-3/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/04/robert-lustig-the-guy-on-obesity-speaking-may-3/#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 22:35:57 +0000 Carol Ness http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=28096 Sugar: UCSF’s Lustig on why we love it, and how it’s killing usIt’s not calories that are making us obese — it’s sugar. That’s the message one of the nation’s best-known experts on obesity, UCSF’s Dr. Robert Lustig, is spreading far and wide to try to ignite change in food systems and nutrition policy. Thursday, he brought it to UC Berkeley.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/04/robert-lustig-the-guy-on-obesity-speaking-may-3/feed/ 0