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I feel like this will someday be exhibit A for a presentation on "Correlation is not causation".

I am blaming sucrose being added to literally everything.

What do you think of the lack of correlation between sucrose and obesity that the authors' site? I think it was in one of their previous articles in this series.

high fructose corn syrup was developed in 50's and fits the timescale he is talking about, but it could be a number of things.

The altitude maps are interesting because it presents the hypothesis that less oxygen could be preventing the negative effects of some compound on metabolism.

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