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#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Sugar and Refined Grains Cause Obesity and Heart Disease

In the 19 sixties, several british researchers started focusing in on this idea that it's either sugar, or sugar and refined grains that cause obesity and diomedes and heart disease. And then into this walks agname denis burket, who was a missionary physician in africa. He decides that the problem isn't the presence of the sugar and the white bread and the beer,. It's the refinement of the fibre. You refine these products. So you take in a wheat and you refine it anto white bread, you get rid of all the fibre in the process. In parts. If you told people to eat less fat, theue s watwere they can eat

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