Dr. Robert H. Lustig, the outspoken critic of “Big Food, Big Pharma and Big Government,” will take part in an Ocean County Library virtual author talk on Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 2 p.m.

The neuroendocrinologist offers a radical perspective on the confluence of nutrition, health and disease, medicine, environment and society in Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine, available in print, audiobook and eBook versions through the library system Library.

On his website, Lustig contends that sugar-laden processed food has placed minds and bodies in an endless cycle of…