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A potential reason could also be fructose. While humans ate tons of carbs since agroculutural revolution those carbs were ~95% glucose (starch), eg potato, gra
by oifjsidjf 4y ago
A potential reason could also be fructose.
While humans ate tons of carbs since agroculutural revolution those carbs were ~95% glucose (starch), eg potato, grains, rice, beans,...
Only in the last ~70 years did we have an explosion in
1) sugar (50% fructose) and HFCS
2) fruits with a high sugar content: most modern fruits didn't exist ~100 years ago, and those that did had a fraction of fructose that modern fruits have.
Fructose is known to be the most destructive things you can put in the body (glucose is almost harmless compared to it).
Eg a study shown that replacing or even just replacing fructose with glucose had a massive improvement in fatty liver in children in just 9 days!
Fructose is metabolized like alchocol, which is why in the ~1970 or 1980 you start seing T2 diabetes and fatty liver in children, while before T2 diabetes and fatty liver was only a problem of alchoholics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
- JPLeRouzic 4y agoThanks for posting this, it's incredibly insightful.
- lob_it 4y agoI watched both of Lustig's videos on fructose. A lot of interesting data. The american heart association estimates a 60%-70% overweight/obesity ratio. Individuals still choose their own lifestyle behaviors :)