Sam Apple: Surprising Links Between Cancer and The Food You Eat
Abel James Show
Abel James Bascom
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Could you use a little inspiration to eat less sugar?
I think we probably all could.
So today, we're here with Sam Apple, a writer, science journalist, and author of the highly rated book called “Ravenous.”
Sam is no slouch, he taught creative writing and journalism at the University of Pennsylvania for 10 years, and is currently on the faculty of the MA in Science Writing and MA in Writing programs at Johns Hopkins.
Sam loves digging into taboo and controversial topics, and his latest book, Ravenous, is no exception.
I think you’re going to dig this show. We're chatting about:
• The scientific genius who discovered how cancer cells eat • The link between cancer and the foods you eat • Surprising results when looking for cancer in indigenous populations • Benefits of low-carb ketogenic-type diets • How to be a bookworm in the internet age • And tons more…
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, this is Abel James and thanks so much for joining us on the Fat Burning Man |
| 0:05.5 | show where we talk about real food and real results. |
| 0:09.9 | Could you use a little inspiration to eat less sugar? |
| 0:13.2 | I think we probably all could, so today we're here with Sam Apple, a writer, science journalist |
| 0:19.0 | and author of the highly rated book called Ravenus. |
| 0:23.0 | Sam is no slouch. |
| 0:24.5 | He taught creative writing and journalism at the University of Pennsylvania for 10 years |
| 0:29.1 | and is currently on the faculty of the MA in science writing and MA in writing programs |
| 0:34.4 | over at Johns Hopkins. |
| 0:36.4 | Sam loves digging into taboo and controversial topics. |
| 0:40.0 | His latest book, Ravenus, is no exception and we hope you enjoyed this conversation. |
| 0:45.0 | Despite the fact that it will likely be censored on the major platforms because we're talking |
| 0:49.9 | about health, number one, and history, number two, two very forbidden topics at this point. |
| 0:56.4 | But we're accustomed to being throttled and senselessly banned by major platforms. |
| 1:02.2 | So as always, please find our uncensored full episodes over at fatburningman.com in video |
| 1:08.7 | and audio and full transcripts. |
| 1:10.9 | On that note, since I wish I didn't have to say this, but many of you are already aware |
| 1:15.6 | that YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other mainstream platforms shamelessly censor, |
| 1:22.1 | throttle and ban people like us for talking about perfectly reasonable topics. |
| 1:27.3 | And you might also get shut down just for using one of a growing percentage of words that |
| 1:32.2 | comprise the English language. |
| 1:34.3 | There are so many that are off limits at this point that it becomes difficult to have conversations |
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