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General Category => Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on January 11, 2019, 1300 UTC
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Sugar’s Sick Secrets: How Industry Forces Have Manipulated Science to Downplay the Harm
When Dean Schillinger, MD, was a resident at San Francisco General Hospital in the early 1990s, almost half his patients had HIV or AIDS. Today, he’s chief of general internal medicine at the hospital, and a new crisis occupies him: Nearly half his patients have type 2 diabetes. Many grapple with its horrific toll, including blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart attacks, and strokes.
University of California San Francisco:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412916/sugars-sick-secrets-how-industry-forces-have-manipulated-science-downplay-harm
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While I feel sugar should be regulated as a CII drug, they'll never take my oj or hot cocoa!
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Chris,
Thanks for posting this stuff.
Just went through the cupboards looking at the labels on various food items.
They are mostly all loaded with sugar.
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Two books changed by health and habits over a decade ago, both by Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food (read in that order). However, as a New Englander (albeit a flat lander) I must abide by the first commandment of the region "Give Me Maple Syrup or Give Me Death". Just ran down to local sugarhouse to refill this morning, a lone sweet vice.