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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/

Two Harvard scientists wrote the paper that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. That should tell you something......They each received what would be equivalent to $50K today.

Sugar consumption is tied to every single chronic disease in the world, and is at the root of the obesity epidemic in the US. Don't believe me? The Alzheimer's rate alone is expected to double by 2050. Alzheimer's is now known as Diabetes Type 3. Let that sink in. Your brain becomes insulin resistant and can no longer function.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/ Two Harvard scientists wrote the paper that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. That should tell you something......They each received what would be equivalent to $50K today. Sugar consumption is tied to every single chronic disease in the world, and is at the root of the obesity epidemic in the US. Don't believe me? The Alzheimer's rate alone is expected to double by 2050. Alzheimer's is now known as Diabetes Type 3. Let that sink in. Your brain becomes insulin resistant and can no longer function.

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You think that started it? Go look up leaded gasoline. Which also didn't "start" it

[–] • 4 pts

Sugar is the link to all the chronic diseases in the world right now

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The sugar industry also paid for a study on its primary competitor, saccharin. They fed something like 100x their body weight of saccharin to rats and found "it causes cancer." Ignoring the effects of sugar are significantly worse at the same dosage. That stigma, based on rigged research, still remains to this day. Effectively providing sugar a monopoly on the sweetener market. More options exist today. But that wasn't always the case.

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Yep! I just had this discussion with someone this week.