Prof. Robert Lustig - 'Sugar, metabolic syndrome, and cancer'
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters recommend it as a Lustig lecture on sugar and metabolic disease, and as a source for claims about metabolic causes of weight gain.
What it is
Pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig talks at Low Carb Denver 2020 about sugar, metabolic syndrome and cancer. He lays out the case that metabolic dysfunction drives disease.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends sph · 2022-03 · on “Rare genital defects seen in sons of men taking major diabetes drug”
Bullshit, and my response is a bit tangential, sorry. Obesity isn't a defect of self-control, it's a systematic metabolic disease that makes these people ravenous yet ingest enormous amount of calories. Low carb eating has been successful outside of the mainstream lie of "eat more whole grains" because it simply avoids the foods that worsen runaway metabolic syndrome; the common advice is just to "eat less", while these poor people are ravenous and gain fat on whole foods 2,000 kcal diets. CICO doesn't mean anything in a vacuum if one way of eating causes you to be constantly hungry, and the other teaches your body to make use of its great amount of stored energy. Obesity is eating the same
Cites pengaru · 2020-06 · on “Fatness and Thinness in the Middle Ages”
> Due to the laws of thermodynamics, people don't gain or lose weight "regardless of diet". Some medical conditions can reduce metabolic rate or increase hunger, but even so for every person there is a calorie intake threshold below which they will lose weight. No, AIUI there are metabolic syndromes where instead of losing weight, they'll just get sicker and die, even while gaining weight. My understanding, based on stuff I've read and talks by the likes of UCSF's Lustig on youtube, is that in some cases people can be effectively starving themselves to death internally while gaining weight eating a normal diet because most the energy consumed is being stored in fat. When you lower the calori
Cites ncmncm · 2021-10 · on “Investigators say they've finally identified the Zodiac Killer”
TIL librubberband! So, like $ mpv --af=rubberband --speed=2 --demuxer-readahead-secs=60 [this video] Food labeling requirements have to be counted as a success, as far as they go. And, I find it hard to criticize the execution of the tobacco advertising ban. Stringing people up has been seen to work, but most often the wrong ones get strung up.