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Robert H. Lustig, a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco, is considered the leading authority on the dangers of sugar.

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even at one of the world’s great academic medical centers you can easily declare yourself an expert in a condition that no one else wants to deal with.

There is a third theory, which belongs to John Potterat, one of the country’s leading epidemiologists. His culprits are the physical changes in those years affecting East and West Baltimore, the heavily depressed neighborhoods on either side of Baltimore’s downtown, where the syphilis problem was centered. In the mid-1990s, he points out, the city