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What if sugar is worse than just empty calories? An essay by Gary Taubes
Doctors have long suspected sugar is not simply a source of excess calories but a fundamental cause of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Gary Taubes argues we must do more to discourage consumption while we improve our understanding of sugar’s role
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Nobody in their right mind would tell you that snorting cocaine is better than eating coca leaves, or that snorting/eating pure caffeine is better than having a coffee. Yet somehow we’ve been for decades accepting that eating refined sugar instead of fruits and vegetables is ok. Tells you something about the power and willingness of the plutocracy to trade human lives and suffering for money.
This is so true. The same goes for ditching fat and replacing it with sugar and adding trans fat to foods and other nasty man made things and tricking people into believing they are better than real food grown out of the ground. I can go on and on,but the food industry and sugar drink manufacturers could not do the right thing if their lives depended on it. It's taken Gary Taubes years to get his point across,but people are finally waking up and smelling the fakery and it's not pretty.