Sugar as a toxin: YouTube video of biochemistry and evolutionary medicine

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Sugar sugar (Photo credit: dhammza)

Recently a YouTube video explaining the biochemistry of sugar has elevated public awareness of thousands of Americans enough to question heir intake. Much of the research, this speaker notes, points to sugar as a direct toxin, including more recent discoveries on its effect on insulin signaling and cancer. Of course anthropologists have long documented the many impacts of sugar, from colonization of whole populations to the rise  in diseases of civilization resulting from the Western diet but this increased awareness by a gifted speaker and clinician is a welcome one.

Is Sugar Toxic? – NYTimes.com.

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