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Robert Lustig: "Processed Food, Metabolism, and The Ills of Society"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Nova System and OVA

There is a classification system that was developed by Dr. Carlos Monteiro, who is a professor of public health at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Nova system and OVA doesn't stand for anything, just the new system. It turns out when you look at the consumption across the world of various foods, only that class four category contributes to metabolic disease. But that's where the action is. And that happens to be 63% of all the foods sold in America and 67% of the sugar that we consume.

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