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Alan Aragon

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I’ll make this short & sweet. My new website has been up for about a week, but I want to do a formal post for those on my blog’s RSS feed who might not have gotten the memo otherwise. Dig through the pages (find the hidden LOL in the bottom navigation bar), sub to AARR if you’ve been thinking about it but needed a…

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A retrospective of the fructose alarmism debate.

After 300 comments and counting, it’s safe to agree with Nigel Kinbrum that my recent critique of Dr. Robert Lustig’s fructose lecture “has caused a bit of a stir in the nutritional blogosphere.” The intense debate (& discussion) that ensued inspired me to re-cap some things I feel were most interesting. There was…

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The bitter truth about fructose alarmism.

Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, is the star of the video above. While he presents some material that’s scientifically sound, he also makes enough errors to warrant a healthy dose of criticism. There’s a ton of material he goes over, so instead of writing a…