Public health: The toxic truth about sugar

Nature

Volumn 482, Issue 7383, 2012, Pages 27-29

  Lustig, Robert H ^a   Schmidt, Laura A ^b   Brindis, Claire D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; SUGAR; SWEETENING AGENT;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIVER TOXICITY; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; NOTE; OBESITY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SUGAR INDUSTRY; SUGAR INTAKE; TAX;

DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; FRUCTOSE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; NEOPLASMS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84856410314     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/482027a     Document Type: Note

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