Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

Posted by aldarion 1/7/2026

Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)(www.ucsf.edu)

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almosthere 1/7/2026|

Sugar and fat are the same thing. Converts

amanaplanacanal 1/7/2026|

There are processes that convert, but it's typically only small amounts. They aren't interchangable in effect.

almosthere 1/7/2026||

depends on how fat you already are - if you are, 100% of it converts. For anyone that is addicted to sugar they are pretty much a fat person. The sugar industry is blaming themselves.

game_the0ry 1/7/2026|

That industry can lobby for and basically "purchase" scientific outcomes that affect health standards should be a defcon 1 red alert. People should be lose their careers over this, at the very least imo.

And the fact that people do not care is just as, if not more, concerning.

This is how you get MAHA, which I support bc of this, craziness included.

kenferry 1/7/2026||

Er, how does putting your faith in literally vibes (MAHA) follow. Just complete rejection of expertise and science.

morshu9001 1/7/2026|||

Yeah, I completely reject nutritional science. Even without bribes involved, there are just too many complexities for them to draw useful conclusions. Ignored the food pyramid too.

boston_clone 1/7/2026||

You should try the carnivore diet and completely eliminate Vitamin C intake to prove them scientists wrong! Scurvy is just a complex myth, after all. Just like rickets, or blindness from Vitamin A deficiency.

game_the0ry 1/8/2026|||

Bc that "expertise" was bought and paid for which is why we have a food pyramid that does more harm good.

kenferry 1/20/2026|||

The part I do not understand is why you then DO buy MAHA. Why is completely making things up better?

If you think nutritional science is too unreliable, I can see that perspective. The conclusion then should be “I don’t know” not “trust the people who argue with psychological techniques instead of science”.

boston_clone 1/14/2026|||

we have a food pyramid again? since when?

Alex2037 1/7/2026||

>That industry can lobby for and basically "purchase" scientific outcomes that affect health standards should be a defcon 1 red alert.

why? the state does not need you to live past your retirement age. in fact, it's preferable if you don't.