May 6, 2015
Warren Buffett is long sugar. He owns $16 billion in Coca-Cola stock—and he says he drinks five Coca-Colas a day while eating potato chips. US researchers at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri recently found that high blood sugar levels rapidly increased the toxic amyloid beta protein thought to trigger Alzheimer’s.
Find out why US per-capita sugar consumption peaked in 2000.
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