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Episode 22 Dr. Robert Lustig

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Aha Moments

Sally Kohn: How did you go from buying the party line to more and more becoming overtly critical of the medical slash pharmaceutical piece? Kohn: Basically, I've had three aha moments. The first aha moment was the kids at St. Jude, that where the biochemistry drives the behavior. And we started showing that when we got the sugar out of their diet, they got better. She says her colleagues found the paper trail of the sugar industry who paid them $50,000 in 1967 to produce two review articles for the New England Journal of Medicine which basically exonerated sugar as bad guy in heart disease.

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