Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
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Re: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
#2This meme is very healthy among MAHA, and Secretary Kennedy is overseeing an overhaul of the Dietary Guidelines, recasting saturated fat as a health food. There is a lot of speculation that we will soon see a new food pyramid that is an inverted version of the last one.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/08/nx...
I wonder if it will keep flipping as administrations change.
Edit: The new guidelines are expected to be released today.
https://www.wfla.com/news/national/kennedy-wants-to-end-war-...
Re: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
#3Maybe I read too much history - but hasn't Big Sugar been known for "nothing that a slave trader wouldn't do" ethics for the past 300+ years?
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Re: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
#5>Sugar Papers Reveal Industry Role in Shifting National Heart Disease Focus to Saturated Fat
But sugar-sweetened foods contain saturated fat ... so ?
Re: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
#6Maybe I read too much history - but hasn't Big Sugar been known for "nothing that a slave trader wouldn't do" ethics for the past 300+ years?
Sure, but do you trust Big Butcher?
Re: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
#7Needs (2016) in the title - and all big industry plays these games with "science".
Re: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
#8This meme is very healthy among MAHA, and Secretary Kennedy is overseeing an overhaul of the Dietary Guidelines, recasting saturated fat as a health food. There is a lot of speculation that we will soon see a new food pyramid that is an inverted version of the last one. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/08/nx... I wonder if it will keep flipping as administrations change. Edit: The new guidelines…
> There is a lot of speculation that we will soon see a new food pyramid that is inverted.
Pretty much everyone I know understands that the food pyramid is the product of various lobbies coming together and does not represent a legitimate theory of diet or nutrition. That is independent of their politics or opinions about RFK.
I don't think a change to the food pyramid would change anyone's actions, people haven't taken it seriously for decades.
Re: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
#9Maybe I read too much history - but hasn't Big Sugar been known for "nothing that a slave trader wouldn't do" ethics for the past 300+ years?
It is beyond me how anyone can expect any business (especially public traded) to have any ethics whatsoever.
Re: Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)
#10This meme is very healthy among MAHA, and Secretary Kennedy is overseeing an overhaul of the Dietary Guidelines, recasting saturated fat as a health food. There is a lot of speculation that we will soon see a new food pyramid that is an inverted version of the last one. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/08/nx... I wonder if it will keep flipping as administrations change. Edit: The new guidelines…
What annoys me the most is that sat fat is a huge way that sugary products are made more palatable to people. People love butter. It is every chef's 2nd favorite tool, just after salt.