> Is something in our diet, like processed meats and sugary drinks, to blame? Could this be linked to the rise in obesity? Dr Peter Attia on the Tim Ferris pod

> Is something in our diet, like processed meats and sugary drinks, to blame? Could this be linked to the rise in obesity? Dr Peter Attia on the Tim Ferris podcast in 2019 suggested it's the fructose in sugary drinks. > Sugar as a liquid versus sugar as a solid behave differently and also the dose matters, but if you take a bolus of liquid sugar, it’s going to make it further down the GI tract than the solid. Certainly, in animals, the evidence, Lew Cantley actually published this study in Science about four months ago. You could basically take a mouse model that is primed to get colon cancer and you had three groups. One group is getting just a bolus of glucose. The other group is just getting a bolus of fructose liquid, and the other is getting a bolus of sugar, glucose and fructose together. You could make that animal explode in colon cancer with the sugar, the glucose fructose. https://tim.blog/2019/12/07/peter-attia-transcript/ https://tim.blog/2019/12/07/peter-attia-transcript/