The Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures (IHGC) is delighted to invite you to a public lecture and breakfast conversation with NYTimes bestselling author, neuroendocrinologist Dr. Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L., this Friday, March 21, 2025. A leading voice in the “anti-sugar” movement, Dr. Lustig has fostered a global discussion of metabolic health and nutrition, exposing some leading myths that underlie the current pandemic of diet-related disease and childhood obesity. He believes the food business, by pushing processed food loaded with sugar, has hacked our bodies and minds to pursue pleasure instead of happiness, fostering today’s epidemics of addiction and depression. He has authored several influential books, including Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and Metabolical (2021). By focusing on real food, he believes we can beat the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease. Dr. Lustig is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies, at the University of California-San Francisco.
