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KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Type 2 Diabetes Is Reversible Without Drugs via Low-Carb Diets
“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…”
Gary Taubes Nov 30, 2017 ▶ 1:18:56 #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Science Proved Insulin Regulates Fat Storage by the Early 1960s
“By the early 19 sixties, it was clear that insulin, the hormone insulin, was the primary regulator of fat accumulation in the human body.”
Gary Taubes Nov 30, 2017 ▶ 43:46 #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
The Sugar Industry Amplified Existing Dogma Rather Than Inventing Doubt
“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…”
Gary Taubes Nov 30, 2017 ▶ 1:21:13 #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Diverse Global Populations Develop Obesity When Adopting Western Diets
“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 …”
Gary Taubes Nov 30, 2017 ▶ 7:55 #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
US Diabetes Prevalence Has Surged 700% Since the Late 1950s
“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%.”
Gary Taubes Nov 30, 2017 ▶ 9:45 #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Former WHO Chief Admitted Odds of Stopping Chronic Disease Are Near Zero
“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…”
Gary Taubes Nov 30, 2017 ▶ 11:04 #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Hospital Records Show US Diabetes Rates Were Almost Nonexistent Before 1850
“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…”
Gary Taubes Nov 30, 2017 ▶ 13:17 #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Pre-WWII German and Austrian Scientists Concluded Obesity Is a Hormonal Disorder
“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…”
Gary Taubes Nov 30, 2017 ▶ 38:58 #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Assertion Supported
Obesity and Diabetes Cost the US Healthcare System $1 Billion Daily
“Obesity and diabetes cost, the healthcare system in the U.S., the estimate is a billion dollars in direct medical costs a day.”
Gary Taubes Nov 30, 2017 ▶ 1:10:29 #25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
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