AAPMD Endeavour Pediatric Section presents Connecting the Dots – Nutrition Transition in the 1st 1000 Days
Robert Lustig, MD, MSL

Children today get chronic diseases associated with aging — obesity, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease. Clearly food plays a role. They also get two airway diseases — malocclusion and obstructive sleep apnea. Certainly craniofacial morphology plays a role. But what is the relationship between food, metabolic disease, craniofacial morphology, and airway disease?

Learning Objectives

1. To evaluate the nutrition transition of children’s food over the last 40 years, and its relation to the rise of malocclusion, metabolic syndrome, and obstructive sleep apnea
2. To explain the primary role of fructose added to infant and toddler food and mechanisms of these processes
3. To explain the secondary role of lack of fiber in infant and toddler food and mechanisms of these processes

Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L., is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, and a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in obesity, diabetes, metabolism, and nutrition. He is a leader of the current “anti-sugar” movement that is changing the food industry. He has dedicated his retirement from clinical medicine to help to fix the food supply any way he can to reduce human suffering and to salvage the environment by interacting with all stakeholders around a common vision of metabolic health. Dr. Lustig also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2013. He is the author of the popular books Fat Chance (2012), The Hacking of the American Mind (2017), and Metabolical (2021). He is the Chief Science Officer of the non-profit Eat REAL, and a member of the Nutrition Task Force of the American Dental Association. He is also the Chief Medical Officer of Biolumen, Ireneo Health, and Perfact.

1 CE credit available to AAPMD members