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“Even type two diabetes was irreversible. Once on insulin, always on insulin, basically, until you get taken down by the side effects. And now people are showing that on these diets, and maybe others as well, but they're showing that this is a reversible diseas…”

“By the 19 sixties, the biochemistry had pretty clearly worked out that when you dump fructose on the liver, it converts it to fat. And on the other side, you'd have these insulin resistance researchers saying, hey, insulin resistance seems to be caused by the …”

“By the early 19 sixties, it was clear that insulin, the hormone insulin, was the primary regulator of fat accumulation in the human body.”

“The medical textbook, the most seminal textbook, and the Harrison's Principles of Medicine, I think it's called, and the chapter on obesity is written by the, you know, a very, very smart researcher named Jeff Flyer, who just, until recently, was dean of Harva…”

“Unlike the tobacco industry, so the tobacco industry's job was to somehow try to convince the world that the research community was wrong, and to sow confusion about what the research community was saying. What the sugar industry had to do was remind the resea…”

“Inuits near the Arctic Circle or Native Americans or First Nations people or you know, African populations or South Pacific Islanders and Middle Eastern populations or Southeast Asians, they all Experience obesity and diabetes epidemics when their environment …”

“In the U.S., and according to the Centers for Disease Control in the U.S., since the late 19 fifties, diabetes prevalence has increased 700%.”

“The Director General of the UN, a woman named Margaret Chan, a year ago referred to them as slow motion disasters, and she predicted, this was fascinating, this was at a keynote address of the National Academies of Medicine in Washington, and she gave a number…”

“And you find out, for instance, in the U.S. That diabetes rates, ah, in, were virtually nonexistent, even though it was a very, a relatively easy disease to diagnose You saw very little sign of it pre-eighteen 50, and even, for the most part, pre-eighteen seve…”

“The German and Austrian clinicians, and Germany and Austria was, you know, these people were doing far and away the best medical science in the world at the time, and they pioneered all the fields of science relevant to Obesity, so metabolism, genetics endocri…”

“Sugar over the course of the 19th century went from being a sort of expensive luxury in the beginning of the 19th century when Americans, for instance, probably consumed less than in the neighborhood of five pounds per person per year. So that's the equivalent…”

“Obesity and diabetes cost, the healthcare system in the U.S., the estimate is a billion dollars in direct medical costs a day.”

“Sugar's always been considered a painkiller, and actually entered Europe in the 1314 century, or 12th post-Crusades, more as a medicinal, and perceived as having medicinal uses, than as a food or a spice.”