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Episode 9 Belinda Fettke

Food Junkies Podcast

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Is There Evidence That Sugar and Processed Carbs Are Addicts?

Gary was diagnosed with a very aggressive pituitary cancer in 2000 and for the first 12 years he was trying to research how to get rid of it. Despite being I would say a carb addict for his entire life Gary knew that eating their sugars and the processed carbohydrates was affecting his health. He took sugar and processed carbohydrates out of his diet as part of an anti-cancer intervention. The Australian of the year 2020 James Mugi has also really been highlighting this whole issue with sugar sugar addiction. Big food knows they're creating products that hijack our brains like any tangible evidence of that, says Dr Lustig.

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