Insulin resistance, not obesity itself, predicts higher mortality rates from diabetes and heart disease. Robert Lustig presents UCSF research on 43 children in an obesity program who all had metabolic syndrome, fatty liver disease, and high sugar intake.
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Those who are insulin resistant have more diabetes and more heart disease than those who are insulin sensitive. And here's your Kaplan Meier curves showing the rate of mortality based on insulin sensitivity here, obese or non obese irrelevant, versus insulin resistance here, non obese or obese irrelevant. In other words, it's the insulin resistance that qualifies the obesity, not the other way around. Okay. It's insulin resistance that matters. Now, how do you get that insulin resistance? Well, there are a few ways, but I'm going to show you my favorite. Okay. The one I did the work on. Okay. So this is our work from UCSF. What we did was we took 43 children from our obesity program at UCSF, all with metabolic syndrome, all with fatty liver, and all high sugar consumers, and we studied them on their baseline diet, and they all had fatty Liverpool.