#106 - Big Food, Big Sugar & how they affect our metabolic health today | Dr. Robert Lustig & Ben Grynol
LEVELS – A Whole New Level
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The Relationship Between Heart Disease and Sugar
In the early 1950s, a link between coronary heart disease (CHD) and sugar was discovered by researchers. The findings were buried by the sugar industry, who sponsored a study in 1960 that shifted the blame to cholesterol. This led to fat being demonized and sugar being perceived as the hero. However, other factors such as smoking and trans fats also contributed to the rise in heart disease. Meanwhile, a researcher named Ancel Keys promoted the idea that saturated fat was the main culprit. The sugar industry feared their product would be implicated, so they funded two review articles that exonerated sugar and blamed saturated fat, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers were paid $6,500 for their work.
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