Where did this come from?
Beginning with his viral YouTube video (I won't link to it, every additional view is one view too many!), and continuing on, Dr. Robert Lustig has been making the claim that fructose is metabolized like alcohol by the liver. You cannot make your misinformation more clear than to title a section in your book as Lustig did in Fat Chance -- Fructose versus Ethanol: Pick Your Poison.
Before Lustig, I don't think I'd ever heard anyone equate sugar to alcohol on a metabolic level. A few may have made an addiction analogy, but it was Lustig who "taught" us the "science" that the liver processes sugar just like alcohol.
Beginning with his viral YouTube video (I won't link to it, every additional view is one view too many!), and continuing on, Dr. Robert Lustig has been making the claim that fructose is metabolized like alcohol by the liver. You cannot make your misinformation more clear than to title a section in your book as Lustig did in Fat Chance -- Fructose versus Ethanol: Pick Your Poison.
Before Lustig, I don't think I'd ever heard anyone equate sugar to alcohol on a metabolic level. A few may have made an addiction analogy, but it was Lustig who "taught" us the "science" that the liver processes sugar just like alcohol.
It is shocking to me that his video was produced and distributed by an institution of higher learning as a "Mini Medical School for the Public" presentation. This implies to me that the content has been somewhat vetted. Apparently it has not been, and also, nobody within that establishment has ever seen fit to correct the record? Again, apparently not, as there is that Skinny on Obesity series out there repeating many of the previous errors.
