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Podcast: Happy Habit Podcast
Episode: # 432 - Fructose is causing the obesity crisis - Dr Richard Johnson
Description: Book : Nature wants us to be fat : https://amzn.to/3YsyMHm
While sugar is recognised as a key driver of disease across the world, the emphasis has often been on glucose, in todays episode I speak with Dr Richard Johnson on the role of another form of sugar, fructose.
We hear how fructose historically played a key role in helping animals prepare for a scarcity of food.
We explore why animals start foraging for food when they consume fructose.
Dr Johnson tells us about the important fructose switch that he believes lies at the heart of the current obesity epidemic.
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