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ISPD Fall CE Meeting

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The Nutrition Transition and the Airway: How and what we eat

Date
November 7, 2025

Location
East Bank Club
500 N. Kingsbury 
Chicago, IL 60654

Learning Objectives

  1. To demonstrate that obesity is not a requisite intermediary between OSA and metabolic syndrome
  2. To delineate the three pathogenetic mechanisms of the metabolic syndrome
  3. To explore the relationship between oxygenation and metabolic dysfunction
  4. 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
  5. To explain the primary role of fructose added to infant and toddler food and mechanisms of these processes
  6. To explain the secondary role of lack of fiber in infant and toddler food and mechanisms of these processes

Speaker
Dr. Robert Lustig

Robert H. Lustig, M.D., M.S.L. is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, and Member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF. Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with expertise in obesity, diabetes, metabolism, and nutrition. He is one of the leaders 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 to bring them together around a common vision of metabolic health: protect the liver, feed the gut, support the brain. Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT in 1976, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1980. He also received his Masters of Studies in Law (MSL) degree at the 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, he is on the Advisory Boards of the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health, the Center for Humane Technology, Simplex Health, Levels Health, Journeys Metabolic, and Myka Labs. He is also the Chief Medical Officer of BioLumen Technologies, Perfact, and Kalin Health.

More information and registration details coming soon on https://www.ilspd.org.