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This week, Alec talks with Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UC San Francisco, about our country\u2019s addiction to sugar.\xa0Children today are the first American generation to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, in large part due to obesity.\xa0According to Lustig, this obesity often comes from eating too much sugar.

Sugar is hard to avoid.\xa0A recent study reveals that 80 percent of the 600,000 food items in America are laced with added sugar.\xa0Lustig says, \u201cThere is not one biochemical reaction in your body, not one, that requires dietary fructose, not one that requires sugar.\xa0Dietary sugar is completely irrelevant to life.\xa0People say oh, you need sugar to live.\xa0Garbage.\u201d\xa0Dr. Robert Lustig has made it his business to get the rest of the world to pay attention.\xa0\xa0

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