Was there ever really a “sugar conspiracy”?
Perhaps there was no sugar conspiracy. In that case, an entire industry (along with government nutrition teams) went along with an incorrect theory for so long that it accounted for millions of chronic illnesses and trillions of dollars spent in the wrong direction.<p>So there was no conspiracy. It seems - in either case - to be one of the greatest misapplications of science in history. At least the “flat earth” theory didn’t pump people full of expensive “alternative foods” while making generations progressively sicker.<p>Even if there was no conspiracy, I think consumers ought to be furious that they were “fed” 50 years of bad info. We will spend generations trying to undo the habits and ingrained “wisdom” that have developed around fat and sugar. Meanwhile the food industry is allowed to put in as much sugar as they like. You can’t give a child a cigarette, but you can hand them 17 teaspoons of sugar for lunch in the form of a single Coca Cola.<p>I feel like we within HN live in an echo chamber with respect to nutrition. The reality is that I worked at Chick fil A for 5 years and probably served 5,000 milkshakes for breakfast.<p>Who cares if there was a conspiracy in the 60’s. We need way more cultural attention on this issue for <i>today</i>.