Jason shares the chilling truth of the obesity statistics that are now gripping America based on results from the Centers for Disease Control <https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-02-27/us-obesity-rate-passes-40-percent>. In this episode, Jason shares key turning points in our history that led to the dramatic rise of sugar consumption and all of the chronic diseases <https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/index.htm> that follow, including type II diabetes and obesity related diseases. Sugar is said to be 8 times more addicting than cocaine. Listen to how a molecule evolved over 130 million years ago that led to the pandemic of today as Jason shares the evolutionary history of why and where fructose came from.