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Top 10 Robert H. Lustig Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “No, my friends, this won’t be solved from the top-down. This will have to be a bottom-up movement. You can’t expect government to do the right thing. You have to coerce it into doing the right thing. When there are more votes at stake than dollars, that’s when legislators will come around. But that’s not a reason to be daunted. In a democracy, the public has power.”

1. “No, my friends, this won’t be solved from the top-down. This will have to be a bottom-up movement. You can’t expect government to do the right thing. You have to coerce it into doing the right thing. When there are more votes at stake than dollars, that’s when legislators will come around. But that’s not a reason to be daunted. In a democracy, the public has power.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “If you don’t know how to cook, you’re hostage to the food industry for the rest of your life and unwittingly will pass this on to your children.”

2. “If you don’t know how to cook, you’re hostage to the food industry for the rest of your life and unwittingly will pass this on to your children.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “Unfortunately, food now matters even more than it should. Food is beyond a necessity; it’s also a commodity, and it has been reformulated to be an addictive substance. This has many effects on our world: economically, politically, socially, and medically. There.”

3. “Unfortunately, food now matters even more than it should. Food is beyond a necessity; it’s also a commodity, and it has been reformulated to be an addictive substance. This has many effects on our world: economically, politically, socially, and medically. There.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “Michael Pollan, in his New York Times article “Unhappy Meals,” exhorts us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That’s seven words; I’ll reduce it to three: eat real food. The “not too much” will take care of itself. And the “mostly plants” isn’t a worry if you eat the plants as they came out of the ground, or the animals who ate the food that came out of the ground – because they ate plants.”

4. “Michael Pollan, in his New York Times article “Unhappy Meals,” exhorts us to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That’s seven words; I’ll reduce it to three: eat real food. The “not too much” will take care of itself. And the “mostly plants” isn’t a worry if you eat the plants as they came out of the ground, or the animals who ate the food that came out of the ground – because they ate plants.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “Exercise is the single best thing you can do for yourself. It’s way more important than dieting, and easier to do. Exercise works at so many levels – except one: your weight.”

5. “Exercise is the single best thing you can do for yourself. It’s way more important than dieting, and easier to do. Exercise works at so many levels – except one: your weight.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “The Japanese have a saying, “Eat until you are 80 percent full.”

6. “The Japanese have a saying, “Eat until you are 80 percent full.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “Food processing is the Mr. Hyde of this obesity pandemic. And the way to reverse it is to do the opposite.”

7. “Food processing is the Mr. Hyde of this obesity pandemic. And the way to reverse it is to do the opposite.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “Sugar is now the most ubiquitous foodstuff worldwide, and has been added to virtually every processed food, limiting consumer choice and the ability to avoid it. Approximately 80 percent of the 600,000 consumer packaged foods in the United States have added caloric sweeteners.”

8. “Sugar is now the most ubiquitous foodstuff worldwide, and has been added to virtually every processed food, limiting consumer choice and the ability to avoid it. Approximately 80 percent of the 600,000 consumer packaged foods in the United States have added caloric sweeteners.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “Marketing, media, and technology have capitalized on subverting our brain physiology to their advantage in order to veer us away from the pursuit of happiness to the pursuit of pleasure, which for them of course equals the pursuit of profit.”

9. “Marketing, media, and technology have capitalized on subverting our brain physiology to their advantage in order to veer us away from the pursuit of happiness to the pursuit of pleasure, which for them of course equals the pursuit of profit.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “But fear not, there does appear to be one dietary item that can mitigate the damage that sugar does to the brain and promote the biochemistry and the processes that can predispose us to happiness. And perhaps not surprisingly its presence in the diet correlates positively with tryptophan and negatively with sugar. What is this magic chemical? It’s omega-3 fatty acids, of all things.”

10. “But fear not, there does appear to be one dietary item that can mitigate the damage that sugar does to the brain and promote the biochemistry and the processes that can predispose us to happiness. And perhaps not surprisingly its presence in the diet correlates positively with tryptophan and negatively with sugar. What is this magic chemical? It’s omega-3 fatty acids, of all things.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.” – Frank Zappa.”

11. “Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.” – Frank Zappa.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “The American food industry produces 3,900 calories per person per day, with about 29 percent wastage, but we should rationally eat 1,800–2,000. Who eats the difference? We do! Throughout evolution, humans could eat only a fixed amount, but today that amount is limitless.”

12. “The American food industry produces 3,900 calories per person per day, with about 29 percent wastage, but we should rationally eat 1,800–2,000. Who eats the difference? We do! Throughout evolution, humans could eat only a fixed amount, but today that amount is limitless.”

— Robert H. Lustig

Robert H. Lustig Quote: “Fat cells want to be downsized about as much as General Motors or AIG.”

13. “Fat cells want to be downsized about as much as General Motors or AIG.”

— Robert H. Lustig

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