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Fructose may be the ultimate driver of obesity (bigthink.com)
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[–] ikidd 1 points 10 months ago

Excess carbohydrate intake stimulates the insulin response.

This. This right here is where the obesity epidemic comes from. People eat way, way more carbs than any time in history, and we wonder why everyone is fat. Carbs do not induce a satiation mechanism like fats, the opposite in fact. Yet it's fats that get demonized because of the shit science that came of the Seven Countries study.