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Feb. 17, 2012
Should Sugar Be Regulated Like Alcohol?
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| Writing in the journal Nature, UCSF pediatrician Robert Lustig and colleagues suggest regulating sugar just like alcohol and tobacco--with taxes and age limits, for example--due to what they call the 'toxic' effects of too much sweet stuff. Education, they say, is not enough. |
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Robert Lustig
Professor, Pediatrics
Division of Endocrinology
Head, Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
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