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#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Insolent Resistor in Obese People

There's an article in the new england journal on the path o genesis and mechanisms obesity. There's actually no discussion of the mechanisms, other than an assumption that people eat too much. And to me, i'm i don't see how that can be defended. It says, like i said, it's almost mystifying. And i've spent 20 years trying to understand it. I kind of understand every step along the way how it happened and when it happened. But one thing i haven't heard you mention is the roll of fibre? What are we doing with all this fibre?"

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