Starving Kid's Brains (and adult brains too)
publication date: Dec 14, 2009
Robert Lustig may be my favorite researcher on obesity and metabolism. I have made the point that the way many people eat starves their brains. A brain lacking nutrients and, particularly, glucose has no "will power". In his article in Pediatric Annals (2006), Dr. Lustig makes this argument rigorously and passionately.
His shows how an active boy might become an obese sloth through the vicious cycle of high insulin, leptin resistance, increased appetite, and reduced activity. The kid does not want to live like this, but his brain is starving.
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