425: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health
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The Relationship Between Sugar Consumption and Obesity
In 1935, sugar consumption in the US was 22 and a half percent of calories. Today, where obesity has a 2018, 42.5 percent. In other words, one fifth of every plate today is made up of just vegetables. And with that, an explosion, we've had the worst increases of obesity and diabetes and metabolic syndrome since 2000. But for example, I'll tell you this, since 1999 or 2004, depending on two different data sets, sugar has been going down in the US. Since 1999 or 2002, but right in there, total calories have been going down - Guess what's going up? Vegetable oils.
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