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Are we what we eat?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The Argument About Fat Versus Sugar

At the end of the argument between these two pretty eminent physicists about these molecules, we were still left in the midst of a growing obesity pandemic. It had diverted attention away from the fact that we're being aggressively marketed these foods and it's impossible to stop eating them. However we think about the modern food that makes us sick, this is essential food for people with low incomes, and you cannot ban it. You don't want to do anything to increase stigma, you can't tax it - so you have to handle this discussion with incredible sort of nuance and sensitivity as you've been doing it. When we get our letter of complaint from Donut, we are going to be in such

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