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**John Yudkin** (1910-95) was a British physiologist and nutritionist, whose books include _This Slimming Business_ , _Eat Well, Slim Well_ and _This Nutrition Business_. He became internationally famous with his book _Pure, White and Deadly,_ first published in 1972, and was one of the first scientists to claim that sugar was a major cause of obesity and heart disease. **Robert H. Lustig** , MD has spent the past twenty years treating childhood obesity and studying the effects of sugar on the central nervous system and metabolism. He is the Director of the University of California, San Francisco Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program and also a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society. His YouTube video lecture, 'Sugar: The Bitter Truth', has received over six million hits, and his book _Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease_ was first published in 2012.