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Today's episode is about what Americans don't understand about food,

and the historical origins of our diet's delusion.

So when I was a kid, my dad's favorite comedian was Lewis Black, and Lewis Black had this

amazing and, in our household, very famous riff on nutrition and milk, and how there are way

too many kinds of drink these days that call themselves milk, but don't actually come from cows.

It's not soy milk. It's soy juice. That was my dad's favorite line. It's soy juice.

But it begins with his great one liner that basically sums up the state of diet science.

We know so much about health that we know nothing, okay? We know nothing. Case in point is

milk good or bad. I read my case. You don't know. You don't know. And when I was a kid, you knew.

I don't want to hold up Lewis Black as some kind of expert food historian, but there is a lot

more truth in this joke than you might think. In the 1960s, we knew that milk was good for us.

But as heart disease increased, scientists fixated on the fact that the US diet had way too many

calories. And they scrutinized the most calorie dense part of our diet, which was fat.

So scientists started to wage a war against fat. And the diet industry, the food industry, came out

with all of these fat free options. But as we waged that war, we did so with a very particular weapon.

Sugar. And so, as low fat alternatives exploded, something else often replaced the fat in

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