Sugar Industry

The article says sugar and beverage industry interests paid researchers in the 1960s and 1970s to shift attention away from sugar and toward dietary fat. The article argues that the calorie-is-a-calorie belief was not produced by neutral s…

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The article says sugar and beverage industry interests paid researchers in the 1960s and 1970s to shift attention away from sugar and toward dietary fat. The article argues that the calorie-is-a-calorie belief was not produced by neutral science. The article connects industry influence to decades of messaging that dietary fat caused fat gain while sugar's role was minimized.