Was There A Great Sugar Conspiracy? (Part Two)
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This week wraps up our two-part deep dive into one of nutrition’s most talked-about controversies: the idea that “Big Sugar” reshaped health policy, redirected blame toward dietary fat, and helped create the low-fat food era many of us grew up in. Did the sugar industry really “rewrite the rules of health” and how does this story end?! Join us, two Registered Dietitians, as we finish our time-traveling investigation and reveal the truth behind the controversy.
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Things we talked about and additional reading:
- The 2016 Cristin Kearns JAMA article
- The Mother Jones piece
- Letter #1
- Letter #2
- Letter #3
- Letter #4
- Letter #5
- Letter #6
- Letter #7
- Letter #8
- The 1967 NEJM Article (part 1)
- The 1967 NEJM Article (part 2)
- Financial disclosure history in research
- Yudkin’s The Slimming Business, 1958
- 1977 Dietary Goals Report
- Science article, 2018 (Big thanks to DM Johns and G Oppenheimer for their writing on this subject)
- Kearns et al letter to Science and response from authors
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