The Rock'em Sock'em battle of the gurus in Carblandia continued last week as both Lustig and Taubes took to the media airwaves. I'll now call them the sugar twins because ultimately both hinge their arguments on sugar/fructose. Lustig says that because fructose is converted to fat in the liver, sucrose is the one food on the planet that is both fat and carb together and that makes it fattening. That combo is particularly insulinogenic and insulin blinds your brain to leptin so you don't know when to stop eating cheesecake. Taubes is making his last stand at TWICHOO Bunker Hill by saying that all the bad things he's been telling you for years about carbs -- fat cells going wild, spontaneous horizontal growth spurts, starving cells, etc. -- you may be spared of this forever and eternity so long as you never bathed your liver in fructose. Fructose causes insulin resistance and sets the wheels in motion for fat accumulation. Both (misguided) positions hinge on SUGAR = OBESITY.
So, first up to the plate, Lustig went on Alec Baldwin's radio show. This excited Andreas Eenfeldt because low carb hacks see only the headline and have no interest in looking any further, so he alerted his readers to a "great interview" with Robert Lustig. (Transcript HERE)
