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Want to know the crazy story of eight billion humans? They are getting fatter. They are getting sicker. They are eating grains, rat food. Rats run very fast. Rats have a fast metabolism. Grains are rat food.

Generally, humans are not rats. Humans have a slower metabolism. But humans are eating rat food. In the stomach, grain, starch, breaks into glucose. Humans are eating too much glucose. Unused glucose is stored into fat. Humans have to go to gyms and run in hamster wheels. But humans get bored running in hamster wheels.

So humans get fatter because they eat rat food… then too much glucose is turning into fat. Humans love sweet food but they can’t taste the sweet glucose in grain because the glucose is hidden in starch. So humans add sugar to their food which adds more fat to their bodies. Humans get stressed keeping all their fat alive, slowly getting fatter and sicker.

Humans are apes. Apes love sweet food. Fruit has only a total of 15 per cent glucose and fructose. Fructose is the sweetest sugar. Apes eat fruit, not starchy seeds. Starch combined with added sucrose is poisoning eight billion crazy humans.

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