032-Protecting Our Public Health with Sharity Ludwig

This week on Protecting our Public Health, Sharity is joined by Dr. Cristin Kearns, to talk about what tobacco and sugar have in common. 

Episode Highlights

• What inspired Dr. Kearns to look at Sugar
• Dr. Kearns Research Phase
• Tobacco and Sugar Industry (Casting Doubt)
• Sugar and Policy 
• Statistics 

 

Quotes

 

“If you eat it, you better burn it, if you don’t burn it you are going to store it?” 

 

“I chased him down and asked how he could possibly rank Lipton sweet tea as a healthy drink?” 

 

“That was my ah ha moment to ask what is going on at the policy level?"

 

“I decided this was important enough… and I left my job”

 

“I became sort of an investigative journalist” 

 

“I wanted to study with the people that studies the tobacco industry” 

 

“Some of the players… are very much the same” 

 

“What you are trying to do with tobacco, I have done with sugar, and I think you should hire me” 

 

Links

https://profiles.ucsf.edu/cristin.couzens

http://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/sugarscientist-team/#.XkGDbndFzIV

https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/food/

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/05/02/is-sugar-toxic.aspx

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