Miocene Meteorites and Uric Acid
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-01-02

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DESCRIPTION: Human beings lost the ability to detoxify uric acid millions of years ago. What implications does this have for our health today? 

This is the first of a three part video series on sugar. What does uric acid have to do with sugar? Stay tuned for Friday's video of the day Flesh and Fructose (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/flesh-and-fructose/). Gout is one of the "diseases of kings" that used to only affect the 1%, the tiny minority eating rich diets. Now we can all dine like royalty three times a day and suffer from the same diseases. The "peasant food" choices, the cheapest plant foods, are often the healthiest. See Eating Healthy on the Cheap (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eating-healthy-on-the-cheap/) and Biggest Nutrition Bang For Your Buck ([http://nutritionfacts.org/video/biggest-nutrition-bang-for-your-buck/). For more on the dangers of excess sodium consumption see Dietary Guidelines With a Grain of Big Salt (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-guidelines-with-a-grain-of-big-salt/) and Salt OK if Blood Pressure is OK? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/salt-ok-if-blood-pressure-is-ok/). For more on eating based on our evolutionary heritage, see Palelithic Lessons (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/paleolithic-lessons/).

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Image Credit: 36ophiuchi; H. Raab; and James Heilman, MD via Wikimedia; Don Davis; and tedmurphy via Flickr.

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