In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Fat still isn’t good for you. It’s just that sugar is bad for you also.
Most fat is perfectly healthy, it’s when it’s heinously over processed or you eat too much that it’s bad. Sugar also has an important place in a balanced diet, albeit much smaller.
I think that’d be anyone selling high-fat products, but I don’t know if they have a specific lobby. Fast food industry alone would support such effort I bet.
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Fat still isn’t good for you. It’s just that sugar is bad for you also.
Fat is an essential macronutrient. It’s just that we consume way too much.
Just stay clear of transfat and saturated fat as much as possible, and you will be healthier.
Yes. Everything in moderation. I should’ve clarified what I said.
According to the sugar association, added sugars are also healthy in moderation. Whatever that means.
Sugar is not unnecessary nutrient. There is no minimum amount of sugar the human body needs or it will die.
Fat is necessary you will die if you don’t eat fat at all.
Most fat is perfectly healthy, it’s when it’s heinously over processed or you eat too much that it’s bad. Sugar also has an important place in a balanced diet, albeit much smaller.
Yes. Everything in moderation. I should’ve clarified what I said.
Maybe a dumb question, but is there a fat industry which could have lobbied against the sugar industry?
I think that’d be anyone selling high-fat products, but I don’t know if they have a specific lobby. Fast food industry alone would support such effort I bet.
Well, there’s big oil, but their lobbying agenda was pretty full already.
They were too busy taking a victory lap after pushing the idea of a “carbon footprint”
The meat industry wants you to believe carbs are the problem.
There is active and vigorous debate about fat.
https://fatlotofgood.com.au/
Fats from natural foods appear to be unquestionably good for you.
The consensus around sugar is slowly slowly painfully slowly agreeing that sugar is not good for you.
It’s going to take us a century to undo the harm of the 1960s
Depends on the fat.
Bro science here: I heard fat and sugar combined is a force multiplier. Easier for body to store fat in presence of sugar.