Our obesity crisis started when the medical profession, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, persuaded the FDA that animal fat was bad for us and that it should be removed and replaced with sugar.
Our obesity crisis started when the medical profession, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, persuaded the FDA that animal fat was bad for us and that it should be removed and replaced with sugar.
I believe that was the Nixon Presidency. Tricky Dick thought making food as cheap as possible would quell social unrest. The answer he got from Ag Sec was to ad sugar to everything. The FDA just gave in. From the book, “The Hacking of the American Mind.
Our obesity crisis started when the medical profession, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, persuaded the FDA that animal fat was bad for us and that it should be removed and replaced with sugar.
I believe that was the Nixon Presidency. Tricky Dick thought making food as cheap as possible would quell social unrest. The answer he got from Ag Sec was to ad sugar to everything. The FDA just gave in. From the book, “The Hacking of the American Mind.