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#66 - Nature Wants Us to Be Fat (Dr. Casey Means & Dr. Richard Johnson)

LEVELS – A Whole New Level

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The Effects of Fruit Dosing on Animals

Fruit contains a sugar called frut dose, and itself also known as fruit sugar. Fruit dose is also present in table sugar. And so when you eat sugar or high fruit dose corn syrup, your getting a fair amount of fruit dose. We began by doing experiments where we gave sugar to animals. This was 15 years ago. And we found that they rapidly, you know, developed this the switch got turned on. But interestingly, weight gan was linked with eating more. So it looks like the weight gain is driven more by increased food and take. That's biologically driven. The rest of the metal box cendrom occurs from the sugar, independent of calories.

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