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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 Adaptive Processes of Food Consumption

Fructose was a driver of this adaptive process for billions of years. But only in the last 50 years or so has it been added to ultra-processed foods. Food industry knew they had to do something to make their food palatable. So they added more and more and more. Now we are consuming 25 times the amount of sugar that our ancestors did 200 years ago.

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