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243: The Bitter Truth About Sugar and How it Harms Your Health | Robert Lustig, MD

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Sugar Isn't a Nutritious Sweetener, Is It?

Soer popularized the list of all the different names that sugar goes by. Cold sugar has 56 names, and there are 262 for artificial sweeteners. The toxicity of one cococola equals the toxicity of two dia coco colas. There ar no studies anywhere in the world that show using diet sweetners to substitute for sugar actually improve metabolic health.

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