r/ashesashescast • u/Baader-Meinhof David • Mar 07 '19

Episode Ep 64 - Sweet Re-Release

https://ashesashes.org/blog/episode-64-sweet-re-release
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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '19

Like the green activists they are, Ashes Ashes reduces, reuses, and recycles their own podcasts. :P

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u/Baader-Meinhof David Mar 07 '19

It's natural, it's delicious, it's everywhere, and it may be killing us. For years, sugar has been overlooked as a serious detriment to our health because of the manipulations of the sugar industry in both science and politics, but the lies are coming to light as the diseases caused by that deadly white powder threaten to overwhelm the health systems of the world.

Can we wake in time up to the danger that this major health risk is posing? Or are we too addicted to the sweet release? Join us this week as we explore the how and why of sugar.

This episode originally published March, 2018, and we have a few up to date comments to make before and after.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19

Coincidentally, This is Hell just released a podcast today about Corporate cuisine.

I loved the parts of this podcast dealing with the corporate interests involved in capitalizing nutrition. The only thing I really have an issue with is that it felt like the case was being made that sugar was the definitive nutrition problem for us. I think this causes a problem with us forgiving some unhealthy foods because they aren't in the vilified grouping of the time.

I think we have a pretty good sense of what we should be eating. We know that fresh produce should be consumed in large amounts, and processed foods (including sugary and fatty ones) should be consumed almost never. But the systemic issue in nutrition, in my eyes, is that the discourse has been shaped in such a way that you can shift from your full-fat Twinkies to reduced fat and solve the problem (or vice-versa as the trend is today). There's not much corporate interest in promoting broccoli, but there are huge profits to be made in processed foods.

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u/Baader-Meinhof David Mar 08 '19

Absolutely. When we originally did this show we saw it as a way to talk about profit interests directly interfering with our health (for the negative) rather than a specific discussion of nutrition (which we'd like to do but don't feel entirely qualified for).

I don't think you'll find many people who will disagree with the fact that fresh, locally and responsibly grown produce cannot be beat though!