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andyarlo t1_j4amwao wrote

If people reduced their sugar consumption by 90% we could save billions in healthcare costs.

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kirpid t1_j4deri4 wrote

Something else just as expensive would get them a few years later.

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WimbleWimble t1_j4d6d5v wrote

the entire post is "what if we all became sugar-sorcerors and could make sugar somehow 500,000 billion times sweeter." ?

**Most nutrition experts today will agree on at least one thing: that sugar should be treated as a poison in every respect. ** Yes I remember the warnings. Even a single teaspoon of sugar in your tea causes you to explode with 3x the power of the Hiroshima bomb.

10s of billions of people explode every single day because of eating a mars bar, or licking the spoon when making a cake.

Final thought - if this university has "solved" sugar, why doesn't it sell the tech right now for 100s of billions in USD. Every single food manufacturer on earth would be in a bidding frenzy, as they'd essentially conquer the entire market for food within a few months.

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