A short podcast-plus-one by Brian Johnson highlighting Peter Attia’s strong recommendation to eliminate fructose‑sweetened drinks (sodas and fruit juices) from everyone’s diet. The episode reiterates Attia’s advice—eat whole fruit instead—and echoes Mark Hyman’s similar warning that fruit juice is as harmful as soda; the practical takeaway is to stop drinking added sugars, especially for children.
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Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another heroic plus one. The last couple plus ones I shared some inspiring wisdom from Peter Attia's great book on the art and science of living better longer called Outlive. After creating those plus ones I went back to working on the note. Then I typed out this blurb that will make it into the sidebar of the notes. I quote Atiya Again, if there is one type of food that I would eliminate from everyone's diet if I could, it would be fructose sweetened drinks including both sodas and fruit juices which deliver too much fructose too quickly to a gut and liver that much prefer to process fructose slowly. Just eat fruit and let nature provide the right amount of fiber and water. Then I realized after typing that out I had to come back into paper where I create these plus ones before I film them and and we get them into the app to create this plus one. Why? Because this is a really big idea, potentially life changing for everyone. Especially for parents who might think fruit juices are health foods. Note they're not. I repeat, if there is one type of food that I would eliminate from everyone's diet if I could, it would be fructose sweetened drinks including both sodas and and fruit juices which deliver too much fructose too quickly to a gut and liver that much prefer to process fructose slowly. Just eat fruit and let nature provide the right amount of fiber and water. And that echoes some wisdom from Mark Hyman's great book Food Fix in which he tells us, and I quote him, stop drinking sugary beverages. If you've gotten this far, he says in his book, then my next recommendation probably goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway. Don't drink sugar. The best way to reform the food system is to make sugar laden foods less profitable. If consumers demand healthy products, then eventually companies will have to comply. It's not just soda. Fruit juice has a health halo, but don't be fooled by its vitamins and antioxidants. Fruit juice is loaded with sugar and is just as harmful as as soda. I will repeat, fruit juice is just as harmful as soda. Avoid buying it and certainly don't give it to your children. Cutting sugar sweetened beverages from your diet is the single biggest thing you can do to improve your health. Now, although I stay out of the whole nutritional food debate wars, these days we do have some heroic food rules that apply to all nutritional approaches. Whether you're vegan or carnivore or somewhere in between the number one food rule is simple. Don't drink sugar in all forms. No sodas, no fruit juices, period. And that's today's plus one. You drinking sugar? How about your kids and grandkids? Peter Attia is one of the world's most respected medical doctors. If you feel so inspired, remember the one type of food he'd eliminate from everyone's diet. As you get rid of the sugary drinks today.
