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It’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.
Tag: obesity
Symposium to take on weighty issues of sleep, stress and obesity
September 11, 2012:
Participants at the Fifth Annual Obesity Symposium, will present research on the link between sleep, stress and obesity. The event, to be held Thursday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the UC Berkeley International House, is co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Atkins Center for Weight & Health; the UCSF Center for Obesity, Assessment, Study and Treatment; and UCOP.
Intestinal stem cells respond to food by supersizing the gut
October 27, 2011:
A new study from UC Berkeley shows that adult stem cells can reshape our organs in response to changes in the body and the environment, a finding that could have implications for diabetes and obesity.
Sugar’s highs, lows: UC researchers weigh in
March 28, 2011:
People in the U.S. today consume 21 times more sweet stuff than the pilgrims and pioneers did, scientists from Berkeley and other UC campuses reported at a recent symposium on sugar and other sweeteners.
