There's a lot of information out there about the best foods that help us lose weight,

to prevent cancer-fighting inflammation, the list goes on.

In fact, for everything about our health, we try and improve their someone out there

with a new theory on how to do it.

But what does the science say?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

And I'm here to give you the evidence-based approach to take the mystery out of the best

way to live a healthier, longer life.

Peer-reviewed evidence is our belly-wet here at Nutrition Facts.

But what happens when industry tries to manipulate the research to fit their own agenda?

In our first story, we look at how the sugar industry attempts to manipulate the science.

Corporations aren't legally required to maximize shareholder profits, and therefore have to

oppose public health policies that could threaten profits.

I mean, it's just how the system is set up.

Unequivical, long-standing evidence shows that to achieve this diverse industries with

products that can damage health have worked systematically to subvert the scientific process.

Take the sugar industry, for example, internal documents so that they were concerned that

health food faddis were becoming an active menace to the industry.

Sugar was under attack.

Yet many of the poor unfortunate public swallow the misinformation broadcast by the propagandists.

What we're books like Yudkins, Peer White, and Deadly Saying, all of the propaganda is

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