The Sugar Hypothesis

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Most of it is self report data, righte. You just ask people, what do you eat? And itswel and with populations like go ahead, no, ye. With populations like that, i think it's easier to just ask em what they eat. But traditional populations living in village communities, eating basically what they grow and what they what live stock they raise,. It's easier to askem what they eat, assuming that' they eat um. The one thing you do know about all those populations is that they don't need a lot of sugar and white flour - so maybe any population will live to be something close to a hundred or ten years longer than they do now if

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