The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us

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Nov 30, 2017
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INSIGHT

Nutrition Science's Complexity

  • Nutritional science struggles due to complex human subjects and long disease manifestation times.
  • This makes rigorous testing difficult, unlike physics with its simpler, quicker experiments.
INSIGHT

Genes and Epidemics

  • Genetics plays a significant role in individual body types and predisposition to obesity and diabetes.
  • However, the global rise of these epidemics suggests that lifestyle and dietary factors are primary drivers.
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Sugar's Link to Diabetes

  • The rise in diabetes diagnoses in hospitals, from near zero to widespread, correlates strongly with increased sugar consumption.
  • This points to sugar as a prime suspect in the diabetes epidemic, especially with the parallel growth of sugar-heavy industries.
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