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Is fructose driving metabolic disease? | Dr Richard Johnson

The Proof with Simon Hill

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What Is the Earliest Evidence of Obesity?

Obesity has always been around, but it was very, very rare. Heart disease, hyper tension, kidney disease, a diabedes all tracked together. And then there was a sharp inflection point in the 19 seventies, and then it just took off. To day, you know, 35, forty % of e adults are obese in most countries en, they're ot. Some countries, like a samoa, it's high er. Of some populations, like the pima indian, it's hiern and naru, another island in the pacific, it's very high. So it can vary among populations, but it's really become extraordinarily common in the last

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