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Blaming The Food For The Obesity

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"Fat shaming" might not even have been a term yet when we talked to Dr. Robert Lustig early last year. 

But he's well aware of obesity, especially in kids, in his job as a pediatric endocrinologist. 

Lustig does not hold the kids responsible, but he has choice words for the food industry in his book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease.  We step off the scale and listen to this interview again. 

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.