By now you know sugar is unhealthy, but did you know that the sugar industry actually paid two Harvard scientists back in the 1960s to say that sugar is actually quite healthy and the problem is saturated fat and cholesterol.

In today's show we're going to talk about these historical documents and

internal documents from the Sugar Research Foundation and how they pay too

well-recognized Harvard scientists in their era to write these articles

saying that it's really saturated fat

that we should be focusing on. It's not sugar. Sugar's not the problem. It's that

butter. It's the red meat that is the problem. We're going to draw up on evidence

from a paper published by

Kristen Kearns in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2016 titled

Sugar Industry and Cornery Heart Disease Research, a historical analysis and

internal industry documents. In short, the

funding suggests that industry-sponsored research in the 1960s and 1970s that

successfully cast doubt on the hazards of sugar while promoting fat is the

dietary culprit in coronary heart disease. Policymaking committees should

consider giving less weight to food industry-funded studies and include

mechanistic and animal studies as well as

studies appraising the effect of added sugars on multiple coronary heart

disease biomarkers and disease development. So for historical context it's important to

understand two different figures here.

You have John Yudkin, who recognized in the 1960s that it was really sugar that was driving

coronary heart disease and obesity and other health ailments.

But Frederick Stair over at Harvard

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