Episode Transcript: #904 - Gary Taubes
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Boom and we're live hello Gary. Hi Joe. Thanks for coming man. Appreciate it. My pleasure the case against sugar
Yeah, this is a for me. This is a I don't know how to put this any other way
I've I've kind of consumed sugar most of my life until the last couple of years and I slowly sort of tapered off and about
About a year ago, maybe last February or so. I just pretty much cut it all out except for the occasional
You know occasional dessert here there
Infinitely better quality of life. I feel much better
I have more energy and then I started really getting into it and then I came across your work and
What I want to know is first of all, how did you get involved in this and how much resistance have you faced?
Okay, this being the sugar case yes being the whole obesity diet nutrition we can get into all of it
but the sugar one to me is
Absolutely fascinating when you go down. I mean if you've seen that sugar movie. Yeah, yeah
And I'm probably in it. I think I think you are think I'm one of the talking cereal boxes. Oh, okay, right, you know
I watched it with my kids
I made my kids watch it and it's amazing when you know a six-year-old watches something like that and then they go why is sugar and everything?
You know you're it's funny cuz my kids live with this all the time, right? So I we had just come back from spending the holidays with my
grandmother who you know pumps them up with sugar while we're there and there's nothing I could do with it and then we get back and I'm having
I'm making my boys dinner they're 8 and 11 and my wife's out and after the dinner my 8 year old says are we getting dessert and my 11 year old goes
Nick, it's dad man. Are you crazy?
Wake up son