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75. What Is Sugar Really Doing to You?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Long-Term Effects of Sugar on Health

When the UK rationing was lifted, sweets and chocolate sales increased by more than 150% in one year. The researchers wanted to compare rates of certain diseases like diabetes with markers of chronic inflammation 50 years later. They looked at data for each group between 2008 and 2018,. Those who were exposed to the sugar rationing, and those who weren't.

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