sugar

“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…”

“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.”

“You add fiber, you can slow down the digestion of the carbohydrates. You can even slow down the digestion of the sugars. So that would probably help, but you've paid attention to the wrong thing. It's not the absence of the fiber. It's the presence of those ot…”

“And in animals at least, so rats and mice, we could do these experiments, you could demonstrate that they are, they will be more addicted to sugar than to cocaine or heroin, so these experiments Experiments, some of them were done in France, are sort of perver…”

“I'm not convinced by these things saying, have a date instead, because that's just The same molecule in it. The fiber of the date might slow down the take up a little bit. But if you have like, you know, dates that have been made to be this big and super sweet…”