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Gary Taubes wrote a great book called The Case Against Sugar.   Basic idea: If you were a detective in charge of figuring out a series of crimes and you noticed a common pattern among those crimes, you’d be smart to put the pieces together and see if you could narrow your search down to a single suspect.   Right?   Well… That’s what Taubes does in his book.   The crimes? All the chronic diseases wreaking havoc on our society—from diabetes and obesity to heart disease and cancer.   Short story: All those chronic diseases are associated with metabolic dysfunction.   And the fastest way to make your metabolism dysfunctional? Sugar.   Enter: The case against it.    Remember our Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn? She discovered telomerase—the stuff that replenishes telomeres.    Here’s how she puts it in The Telomere Effect: “When we want to spot the parties responsible for metabolic disease, we point a finger at the highly processed, sugary foods and sweetened drinks. (We’re looking at you,