Alan Aragon
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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The fruit is a regular part of their intake.
Yeah, refined or we can
Added sugar is problematic in two different ways, at least.
So the first way is it's diluting...
The nutrient density of the diet.
It's a phenomenon called micronutrient dilution when you have just a bunch of junk micronutrient-free calories in the diet.
The other way that it poses a problem is because it is usually packaged with highly processed and engineered refined carbohydrate and fat combination foods.
So your classic desserts, pastries, cookies, cakes, things like that.
And so the sugar itself, if I were to just put a jar of sugar in front of you and say, hey, I challenge you to not just spoon that in, you'll go, oh, no problem.
People paint sugar out to be this inherently evil thing, but –
The way that it gets into trouble is when it is a part of these hyperpalatable, highly processed, highly engineered dessert and snack foods.
And so that is the main issue with added sugar.
And the various health organizations, I mentioned the Institute of Medicine or now the National Academy of Medicine saying, hey, we need to cut off our added sugars at 25% of the diet.
There's the World Health Organization who presents the...
sort of the absolutely terrified version of that where they want people to max out their added sugar to 5% of the calories in the diet.
But...
That's usually not realistic.
And it gets a little bit extreme to the point of being pathological.
So what would you say?
About 10% of total calories max with added sugar.
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