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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Sep 20

    Is sugar really bad for you? As a low-fat, medium-sugar eater, I've always been skeptical, & the evidence is thin. Sugar-demonization may spring from moral psychology: anything pleasurable is bad for you. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180918-is-sugar-really-bad-for-you?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter … via @BBC_Future

    7:37 AM - 20 Sep 2018
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      2. Steve Boo‏ @MisteRational Sep 20
        Replying to @sapinker @BBC_Future

        It is nutritionally bereft. By proposing it as a moral issue is absurd. The spike in the amount of sugar added to foods and the spike in obesity and diabetes is not happenstance. Sugar is an inflammatory. Inflammation causes illness.https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Inflammation_A_unifying_theory_of_disease …

        1 reply 7 retweets 138 likes
      3. redpillgreen‏ @redpillgreen Sep 20
        Replying to @MisteRational @sapinker @BBC_Future

        BEREFT!

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      4. End of conversation
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      2. Brian Koppelman‏Verified account @briankoppelman Sep 20
        Replying to @sapinker @BBC_Future

        Have you read the Gary Taubes books? If so, how do they hit you?

        3 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
      3. Ron Wechsler‏ @RonWechsler Sep 20
        Replying to @briankoppelman @sapinker @BBC_Future

        Respectfully, would counter that the evidence is not especially thin. According to this report published by your institution.https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/the-sweet-danger-of-sugar …

        1 reply 2 retweets 49 likes
      4. Phoenix Adageyudi‏ @iwasphoenix Sep 21
        Replying to @RonWechsler @briankoppelman and

        Dear lord this guy is a cognitive scientist at Harvard and can't assess scientific research? Well there goes the last of my hope for the future

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      5. Ron Wechsler‏ @RonWechsler Sep 21
        Replying to @iwasphoenix @sapinker

        I am a fan of his work, and think Enlightenment Now is interesting, but the underlying thesis of his work is that quantitative data represents a truth counter intuitive to personal perception. This tweet about sugar was almost the complete opposite of that, just found it odd.

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      6. ecssia‏ @ecssia Sep 21
        Replying to @RonWechsler @iwasphoenix @sapinker

        The thesis is closer to: represents a truth counter to popular perception. This post is in line with that. It is very fashionable to demonize sugar now. For ten years, "low carb" searches have been more popular than "low fat". And sugar consumption has been declining.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      7. Ron Wechsler‏ @RonWechsler Sep 21
        Replying to @ecssia @iwasphoenix @sapinker

        Is it fashionable, or is it supported by scientific study? I’ll grant you that nutrition and it’s effect on health has been a very inconsistent science. But my issue with this post is the notion that sugar is being demonized for psychological reasons as opposed to clinical ones.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Ron Wechsler‏ @RonWechsler Sep 21
        Replying to @RonWechsler @ecssia and

        Personally speaking, I LOVE sugar and bread. I find it very hard diminish my intake. When I have in any kind of consistent manner, my weight and blood work have always responded positively. So for me personally there is a direct correlation, despite my personal preferences.

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      2. Para Aduma  🇮🇱‏ @ParaAduma Sep 20
        Replying to @sapinker @BBC_Future

        Very dissapointing Steven. Classic case of interpreting everything through the lens you are familiar with, and from personal experience rather than from data. Sorry, it's biology here, not morality. The evidence is very strong.

        2 replies 4 retweets 137 likes
      3. Old Man‏ @AngeloZack Sep 22
        Replying to @ParaAduma @sapinker @BBC_Future

        You didn’t read the article did you?

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. JohnFive‏ @thisguykrause Sep 23
        Replying to @AngeloZack @ParaAduma and

        All these comments and its clear that most people haven't read the article. They saw the word sugar and had to tweet the words Keto and Paleo

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Old Man‏ @AngeloZack Sep 23
        Replying to @thisguykrause @ParaAduma and

        Yep. Spot on John. I found this meme yesterday which describes people like this guypic.twitter.com/Orwda9j0SD

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. JohnFive‏ @thisguykrause Sep 24
        Replying to @AngeloZack

        Tweeted the wrong word... Now I have a new follower. Check the bio and guess the wordpic.twitter.com/gS0z3D1q6n

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Old Man‏ @AngeloZack Sep 24
        Replying to @thisguykrause

        😂 My favourite algorithm follows are from Jesus accounts

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. End of conversation
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      2. Gregory Riggs‏ @gkriggs Sep 20
        Replying to @sapinker @BBC_Future

        The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Datahttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0057873 …

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Gregory Riggs‏ @gkriggs Sep 20
        Replying to @gkriggs @sapinker @BBC_Future

        This Econometric Analysis estimates that 25% of diabetes worldwide is explained by sugar and meets the Bradford Hill criteria for causal medical inference as explained by Robert Lustig in this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y&feature=youtu.be&t=54m53s …

        2 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
      4. Alastair McAlpine‏ @AlastairMcA30 Sep 23
        Replying to @gkriggs @sapinker @BBC_Future

        YouTube video isn’t evidence. Next?

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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      1. Steve Adkins‏ @jazzdoc62 Sep 20
        Replying to @sapinker @BBC_Future

        As a physician who has treated obesity for 30 years, the science is clear. Excess sugar is a chronic toxin. Insulin is the mediator. No moral valuation, just science. Genetics is the substrate that makes a single individual's experience meaningless.

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