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Subscribe Jack Bobo: How do we reshape our food environment so that it no longer works against us? By Elaine Watson In many respects, it’s hardly a huge mystery, writes Bobo in And while we often tell ourselves that nutritional advice keeps changing (‘ even the experts can’t agree’​), we all know we should stop smoking, move more, drink less, eat more fruit & veg, and cut down on soda, cookies and pizza, he says. The challenge is following that advice when everything in our environment – the ‘foodscape’ - is working against us. At ba...

One cigarette won’t kill you, observes pediatric neuroendocrinologist and sugar’s arch-nemesis Dr. Robert Lustig, but 10,000 cigarettes over 10 years just might. Processed food is also poisoning us, it’s just doing it much more slowly, contends Lustig, whose latest book boasts a characteristically provocative title: ‘Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine.’

How processed food drives diet-related diseases Getty Images As a nutritionist, I have been privy to lot of debate in the nutrition world about which foods keep us healthy and which foods actually cause disease. Different foods offer different nutrient benefits for overall health. And even packaged foods can be enjoyed as part of a healthy diet. “The food industry works diligently to deliver a consumer marketplace full of healthy, accessible, nutrient-dense food and beverage choices,” said Krystal Register, registered dietition and director of health and well-being at FMI — The Food Ind...

Dr Robert Lustig is the author of a radical new book which wages war on processed food – even the everyday staples in your shopping basket

Food as Medicine: The Answer to Mounting Health Crises Our toxic diet is feeding diseases that can't be cured with drugs that never resolve the underlying problem Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist and professor emeritus at the University of California–San Francisco, has written a number of excellent books about health. His latest, “Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine,” goes deep into the details of how changes in our food supply have damaged our metabolic health. The title of his book, “Metabolical,” is actually a portman...