Is Sugar The New Tobacco? | FoodUnfolded AudioArticle
Channel: FoodUnfolded
Date: 2023-05-05

Understanding the impacts of sugar on our health is not an easy task. Food science is complicated and imperfect, but some level of confusion has been added in by sugar industry stakeholders, who have spent millions over the past few decades to support studies that would produce desirable results for their industry. That’s why a little historical journey will help us spot conflicts of interest and put current findings in perspective.

Article by Silvia Lazzaris
Read by Silvia Lazzaris
Graphics by Eloise Adler
Sound Design by Jane Alice Liu

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Timestamps
0:00 Is sugar the new tobacco?
0:42 Why sugar is a modern problem 
1:37 How much sugar do we consume today?
2:22 Why is there sugar in everything?
3:33 Early sugar research & the obesity epidemic 
3:59 Physicians speak up against sugar
4:29 The link to heart disease: sugar vs fat
5:22 The sugar industry & skewed science
6:35 “Fat, not sugar, is responsible for heart disease”
7:45 “Sugar doesn’t damage teeth”
8:47 “Sugar doesn’t make you fat”
11:20 So is sugar really bad for you?
12:18 Sugars’ effects on our bodies
13:45 The politics of the sugar industry
14:19 High-fructose corn syrup
16:57 For profit or for people?
18:57 Credits

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