Robert Lustig, MD: How Processed Sugar is Fueling a Childhood Fatty Liver Disease Epidemic
A recorded lecture presenting fatty liver disease as an emergent, nonalcoholic pediatric condition; the speaker notes that prior to 1980 fatty liver was associated with alcoholism, but now about 25% of U.S. children have fatty liver despite not drinking. The talk will examine causes/exposures (implied: processed sugar) and link fatty liver pathogenesis to development of type 2 diabetes.
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