Dr Robert Lustig on Pediatric Metabolic Health: “Sugar Is the Alcohol of the Child”

Commentary Article Author(s): Robert Lustig, MD, MSL, explains how the US health care industry needs to shift from measuring body mass index and obesity to measuring cardiometabolic health, which affects 93% of Americans, including children. A recent Institute for Value-Based Medicine® (IVBM) event hosted by The American Journal of Managed Care® (AJMC®) and University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, focused on obesity treatment as a way to reduce the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. However, “obesity is not the problem, …