The Case Against Sugar: Is Gary Taubes Full Of Sweet Lies & Deception, Or Is Sugar Really Making Us Fat?

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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My guest on today's podcast - Gary Taubes - just wrote a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé entitled "" that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us...

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0:00.0	Duh, duh, duh, duh, it's our scary music here.
0:04.0	Especially if you're holding anything that has sugar in it.
0:07.0	I mean, even a frickin' jelly bean,
0:09.2	you better put that bad boy down.
0:10.8	Because I have the ever prolific Gary Taub's on the show today.
0:15.3	And he, of course, thinks that all sugar is poison.
0:18.7	And you're gonna find out why.
0:20.7	When I interview him about his book called The Case Against Sugar,
0:24.8	which he calls the tobacco of the new millennium.
0:27.4	Hmm.
0:28.4	We're gonna find out.
0:30.3	However, this show is actually brought to you
0:33.6	by something that really doesn't have much sugar in it.
0:36.1	At all, it's called the Peelie Nut.
0:37.9	You ever heard of the Peelie Nut?
0:39.5	Huh?
0:40.3	If you haven't, you should have.
0:41.8	Because it contains the highest amount of fat
0:43.9	and the lowest amount of carbs,
0:46.1	AKA sugar, of any nut.
0:48.9	It's got a ton of magnesium and vitamin B1 and manganese.
0:53.6	But probably a lot more importantly than that,
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