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75. What Is Sugar Really Doing to You?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Effects of Sugar on Health

Sugar and sweets went off ration in the UK in September 1953. The study was trying to figure out what is the causal effect of sugar intake on long-term health outcomes. A lot of research comes from animal models, but it's a huge jump to say something about how sugar affects the human body by just looking at small animals.

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