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#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Coca Cola

Coca cola was created to make sure everyone in the world has easy access to it. The fruit juice industry doesn't really show up until the 19 thirties, and then explodes post world war too. By the 19 sixties, the american breakfast had been transformed into a basically adead dessert with fibre - sugar coated cereals. Sugar consumptions exploding. Clearly, that's the prime suspect. Then there's a, as we began to understandthe physiology of how sugaris metabolized, that clearly made sugar a prime suspect as well in actually causing type to diabetes,. In a condition called insolent resistance, thats we should probably talk about.

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