Robert Lustig: How Excess Sugar Intake Drives De Novo Lipogenesis (fat production).
Robert Lustig explains how fructose drives fat production in the liver by diverting energy away from mitochondrial ATP and toward fat storage. Unlike other sugars, fructose accumulates as liver fat that clogs cells, making the calorie-is-a-calorie argument false.
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