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This is absolutely a smoking gun, but I still don't understand exactly how it works. So TLDR the sugar industry paid for (1?) literature review paper that said
by rendaw 2y ago
This is absolutely a smoking gun, but I still don't understand exactly how it works.
So TLDR the sugar industry paid for (1?) literature review paper that said that existing papers reporting risks of sugar were flawed.
But what I hear is that _until recently_ sugar research has been put on the backburner, and only recently are people starting to re-examine the links between sugar and heart health.
How are these two related? Did the one paper really put people off researching it for 50 years?
- zahlman 2y agoTalking about fat seems to have been more attractive because it's more "obvious" (see also: how long we were stuck on wrong ideas about dietary cholesterol, and still seem to be about sodium). Also because there's more chemical variety in fats to argue about. You can have complete fats vs. fatty acids separated from a triglyceride backbone; you can have saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids; and each point of "unsaturation" (where there is a double bond between carbons in the "backbone" of the molecule) allows for cis/trans isomerism. With sugar you basically only have glucose and fructose, and chains thereof, to think about; and that also covers starches automatically.