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How 'big sugar' helped make fat the bad guy

Raising Heel

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A review of newly unearthed documents reveals that the sugar industry in the 1960s paid prominent nutrition researchers to downplay sugar's connection to heart disease and cast blame on saturated fat— a move that may have had a considerable effect on Americans' diets for decades....

Ultimately, the Harvard researchers completed two reviews, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 1967, which claimed to refute studies that suggested a link between sugar and coronary heart disease. They also suggested that the only dietary change that could prevent coronary artery disease was reducing fat and cholesterol intake.


https://www.advisory.com/daily-brie...9||||&elq_cid=2233011&x_id=003C0000021C0rOIAS
 
You mean these things aren't healthy despite having no saturated fat or cholesterol? No way!
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You can't trust anybody, it seems.

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A review of newly unearthed documents reveals that the sugar industry in the 1960s paid prominent nutrition researchers to downplay sugar's connection to heart disease and cast blame on saturated fat— a move that may have had a considerable effect on Americans' diets for decades....

Ultimately, the Harvard researchers completed two reviews, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 1967, which claimed to refute studies that suggested a link between sugar and coronary heart disease. They also suggested that the only dietary change that could prevent coronary artery disease was reducing fat and cholesterol intake.


https://www.advisory.com/daily-brie...9||||&elq_cid=2233011&x_id=003C0000021C0rOIAS
Big Sugar...sounds like a 250 lb. hooker.
 
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