Which is Worse For You: Sugar or Fat?

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For decades, we’ve heard how terrible fat is for us, but more recently, sugar has become the new villain. What does the science actually say about these two macronutrients and how they affect our health?Hosted by: Olivia GordonHead to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe! ----------Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow----------Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Jerry Perez, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali. Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz----------Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishowTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishowTumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.comInstagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow----------Sources:http://www.bcmj.org/article/ancel-keys-and-lipid-hypothesis-early-breakthroughs-current-management-dyslipidemia https://www.sevencountriesstudy.com/https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/38/42/3119/4600167 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4159698/ https://www.bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16467234/ https://academic.oup.com/jhmas/article/63/2/139/772615 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673679928277 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8fbc/b88960f0f177cd07ab813df08d11f987e8db.pdfhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099084/ https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/91/3/502/4597078 http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/28/3/381.shorthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532752/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5793267/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1819573 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2530902 http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/nejmoa022207 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/205916http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/717451/low-carbohydrate-ketogenic-diet-versus-low-fat-diet-treat-obesity http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/1900694/effects-low-carbohydrate-low-fat-diets-randomized-trial https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/200094 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492032/ http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc2949959 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2673150 https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/446865 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4856550/ Image Sources:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:221_Fatty_Acids_Shapes-01.jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ancel_Keys_-_Paul_Dudley_White_-_Flaminio_Fidanza_-_press_conference_in_Gioia_Tauro_-1960.JPG