A few months ago Robert Lustig was a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher.
I wrote a recap of the interview at Robert
Lustig--Fed Up. Robert Lustig is a pediatric
endocrinologist, author of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed
Food, Obesity, and Disease and a featured expert in
the new documentary, Fed-Up.
On October 26, John Oliver took on
the subject of sugar and raised the volume several hundred notches as Oliver is
prone to do. In this hilarious segment,
Oliver demonstrates the harmful effects of sugar and shows how much hidden sugar
Americans consume.
Oliver suggests that food labels
stop reporting the amount of sugar in products as the number of grams—no one understands
grams. He wants the sugar content be
reported as the number of circus peanuts—a type of candy that Oliver calls “the
most disgusting candy ever."
He then suggests that everyone encourage
food manufacturers to adopt this new standard by tweeting using the hash tag “SHOWMEYOURPEANUTS."
Enjoy the video clip of John
Oliver’s segment.
Now watch Bill Maher’s interview
with Robert Lustig for a more serious take on the subject. John Oliver opened his segment talking about Halloween costumes. If you want a really scary Halloween costume, go as a sugar cube. I think you will agree after watching this video.
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