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This is Kickass News, I'm Ben Mathis.

The American body is in trouble.

Unprecedented numbers of us suffer from obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and other

debilitating illnesses. The root cause is a once revolutionary idea that seemed to offer so much

promise, but instead has become the cause of a global health crisis. Processed foods.

Over the past 75 years, a number of factors aligned to create a reality in which processed

carbohydrates became our main food source. In a new book titled Fast Carbs, Slow Carbs,

Best Selling Author and Former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler explains how the quest to feed a

nation resulted in a population that is increasingly suffering from obesity and chronic disease,

and he offers a solution for changing course. And today Dr. Kessler joins me on the podcast to

reveal how his own battle to control his weight helped inspire his new book,

the difference between how our bodies digest fast carbs versus slow carbs,

and why fad diets that cut out carbs altogether might not be such a good idea either.

David outlined the long list of diseases that can be traced to heavy consumption of processed

foods, some of the tricks that the food industry employs to mislead consumers about what's in

many processed foods, and he even suggests some changes that he'd like to make to nutritional

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