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> Robert Lustig videos on Youtube are a great way to start learning about this.

Or off YT:

https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/feioCyaQEZ1ogHK1oNJM4K

> Thus, the people taking fiber out of and putting sugar into everything are the biggest current mass killers. Stringing them up may be an over-reaction. Maybe convicting them would be, too? Anyway stopping them seems like a good idea. Think about them next time the news is full of somebody killing a dozen people. Is a dozen bad, but a million A-OK?

IMO simply not compelling millions of people to pay them for it would be a good start. Defund all the agencies that promote poison, whether by subsidizing corn syrup, villianizing natural saturated fats to sell trans fats and sugar, or conspiring with drug companies and corrupt researchers to sell addictive substances (as discussed this week: https://dynomight.net/alcohol-trial/).

I like to play the videos at 1.5x-2x speed, with subtitles. That makes a 90-minute lecture take a more easily found 60 or 45 minutes.

Tobacco advertising is banned in the US, and tobacco use is in decline there. (The US State Department works to outlaw bans in other countries. True!) A ban on advertising sugar-laced products -- high sugar-to-fiber ratio products, specifically -- ought to help.

I like 3× speed with subs and librubberband (automagically speeding faster through silence and slowing down on fast speech, automatically activated by mpv's librubberband-helper plugin).

After reading the lies and cover-ups the NIAAA, NIH, etc. were involved in relating to the alcohol study, adding more bureaucrats to enforce new bans is about the last thing I'd try to help.

TIL librubberband! So, like

  $ mpv --af=rubberband --speed=2 --demuxer-readahead-secs=60 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpNU72dny2s'

Food labeling requirements have to be counted as a success, as far as they go. And, I find it hard to criticize the execution of the tobacco advertising ban. Stringing people up has been seen to work, but most often the wrong ones get strung up.

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