50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by ncmncm on Monday February 15, 2021 @01:16AM (#26139686)

Saturated fat turns out to be entirely harmless; it turns out that ills blamed on sat fat are caused by sugar and by ... something else ... that is in American-farmed meat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Think of sugar (the fructose in sugar) as a poison. Your liver can neutralize any of myriad poisons at a strictly limited rate, fructose among them. So, choose consciously how much of each poison you want to eat, according to the load on your liver. Fructose and alcohol use the same pathway, so choose wisely.

Americans eat way more fructose than their livers can neutralize, and are dying from it in numbers that make COVID-19 look like the common cold. The autopsies don't say "died of sugar poisoning". Instead, they say heart disease, stroke, obesity, complications from diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hypertension... But it's mostly the sugar.

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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by hammock on Monday February 15, 2021 @03:18PM (#26146805)

Something else?

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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by ncmncm on Monday February 15, 2021 @03:40PM (#26147033)

Research into what about meat consumption in the US causes heart trouble, on top of the known sugar problem, has just started. About all we are sure of, so far, is that the sat fat isn't it.

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