Bitter sweet: How sugar became public enemy number one
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 1:14.0 | biscuits and fizzy drinks isn't great for our health and we know that high |
| 1:17.3 | blood sugar can lead to type 2 diabetes and a host of other illnesses. |
| 1:21.5 | But then fat clogs our arteries, too much protein damages of |
| 1:25.2 | kidneys and can lead to osteoporosis, but we don't hear about that anywhere near as |
| 1:29.5 | much. Why? Professor Karen Throsbury's new book Sugar Rush, Science, Politics and the Demonization of Fatness |
| 1:36.0 | looks at just what has led us all to become so obsessed with sugar right now. |
| 1:40.6 | And she's here to explain, hi Karen. Hello. Your research for this book showed |
| 1:45.2 | that the press and the entertainment media really started getting interested in |
| 1:48.9 | sugar and writing about it a lot around 2012. What else was going on at that time that made this significant? |
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