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#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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What's Causing These Epidemias?

In the late 19 fifties, diabedes prevalencehs increased 700 %. O ksa one ind 11 americans now had diabedes when the number might have been closer to one in a thousand and one in three thousand at the beginning of the twentieth century. We'reno can be able to reverse or prevent them until we identify the fundamental cause. And theni you can further ask the question is there something about the mediterranean diet, or about the french diet, orabout these blue zone diets, that happens to shed light on what's causing obesity and diabetes?

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