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Sam Apple is on the faculty of the MA in Science Writing and MA in Writing programs at Johns Hopkins. Prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins, Apple taught creative writing and journalism at the University of Pennsylvania for ten years. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University.

Apple is the author of Ravenous American Parent, and Schlepping Through the Alps. He has published short stories, personal essays, satires, and journalistic features on a wide range of topics. In recent years, he has primarily written about science and health. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times Magazine, ESPN The Magazine, The MIT Technology Review, and McSweeney's, among many other publications. Schlepping Through the Alps was a finalist for the PEN America Award for a first work of nonfiction.

Timestamps:
00:00 Cancer as a metabolic disease
05:07 Hitler's fear of cancer
08:29 Hitler and vegetarianism
10:29 Otto Warberg's theories on cancer
14:06 Metabolic health and cancer
19:51 Heart disease vs cancer mortality decrease
22:36 Average life expectancy and child mortality
26:33 Obesity and cancer
32:15 Cancer and hyperinsulinemia research
36:00 The Inuit
41:15 Sugar
45:00 Sugar substitutes
49:44 Critique of sugar triggers
52:27 Future book on Stefansson

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