Tag Archive | chronic metabolic disease

Spoken word poem shares the deadly legacy of “400 Years” of sugar

May7

Spoken word artist Té Speight, just released this brand-new video short.

Té’s powerful poem “400 Years” delivers a truth-to-power message from his personal experience and perspective.

Please take a minute to watch it. If you love it like I do, please pass it along to others! Here are those links for Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

The piece offers a fresh and unique take on the infamous history of sugar as a commodity, and speaks directly about the soda industry’s aggressive marketing tactics toward the Black community.

Sickly sweet: The science and policy of fructose overconsumption in America

Mar11

Free Webinar!

Monday March 18, 2013 12 – 1 p.m. EST

REGISTER HERE

America’s’ sweet-laden diet is helping drive obesity and chronic metabolic disease. Join Dr. Robert Lustig, noted pediatrician, neuroendocrinologist and author, as he explores the science behind this phenomenon, as laid out in his new book, Fat Chance. Lustig also addresses America’s fructose addiction as an outgrowth of bad policies and a bad environment. His research reveals how food industry practices lay the groundwork for overconsumption of fructose, how government policy first enabled them, and then more recently turned a blind eye as sugar politics became charged.

Co-sponsors:

  • Collaborative on Health and the Environment
  • Health Care Without Harm
  • Healthy Food Action
  • San Francisco Bay Area Physicians for Social Responsibility