You may have heard the expression knowledge is power. Well today we're going to

give you more power to control your diet and lifestyle by giving you the facts.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we have the first of an eight-part series in how industries impact dietary

and health guidelines and we start with big sugar. In 2019 a series of

reviews were published in the annals of internal medicine that concluded that

same thing that past reviews have concluded. Adherence, dietary patterns lower and

better process meet-intake may result in decreased risk for premature death,

cardiometabolic disease mortality, meaning the risk of getting and dying of

diseases like heart disease and type 2 diabetes as well as the risk of getting

cancer and dying from cancer. Therefore they concluded in their dietary

guideline recommendations, continue your current red meat consumption, continue

your processed meat consumption. What? What? Yeah, premature death, cancer,

heart disease, diabetes, but keep eating your burgers and bacon. To understand

what just happened, we have to go back to 2015. The dietary guidelines had just

had the audacity to recommend people reduce their sugar intake. Imagine you work

for the sugar industry. The evidence is overwhelmingly against you. What do you

do? Well, what did the tobacco industry do? One method involved the tobacco

industry's funding of and involvement in seemingly unbiased scientific groups

to manipulate the scientific debate concerning tobacco and health. Groups

like the ILSI, the International Life Sciences Institute, which has

enjoyed a long and serious collaboration with the tobacco industry, that same

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