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Haven't you been reading Hackernews for the past 10 years? Sugar has been implicated in pretty much every major late-life disease, and the closest thing to a cu
by bitwize 1y ago
Haven't you been reading Hackernews for the past 10 years? Sugar has been implicated in pretty much every major late-life disease, and the closest thing to a cure before GLP-1 agonists was fasting.
- phantasmish 1y ago… and the mechanism by which GLP-1s cause weight loss is, more or less, by making fasting really easy.
- lm28469 1y agoThat's such a lazy and unimaginative take that basically skips 99.999% of human history during which sugar wasn't a problem at all.
- tengbretson 1y agoThe baseline lifestyle of 99.999% of human history would, by modern classifications, be considered intermittent fasting.
- jimbokun 1y agoThat was the part of history when humans didn’t have much access to cheap sugar.
- Der_Einzige 1y agoYou’re the lazy one.
- ThePowerOfFuet 1y agoRefined sugar hasn't been a problem for 99.999% of human history because it hasn't existed for 99.999% of human history.
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- pessimizer 1y agoHacker News has extreme orthorexia and endorses all sorts of quackery.