Fructose, which is very sweet, is the thing in sugar we crave notes Robert Lustig, MD

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"Sugar is made up of molecules, glucose, which is not very sweet and not very interesting, and fructose, which is very sweet and very interesting. Fructose is the thing that we crave," notes Robert Lustig, MD, pediatric endocrinoligist from the University of California, San Francisco in a 7-part video series called "The Skinny on Obesity" (Episode 2).

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