07/02/2022
Nearly five years have passed since Harvard scientists were exposed as the cause of major health problems for the sugar industry's money in the 1960s. Now the benefits of fats are recognized, and the arguments against sugar are growing. We tell you what else science has learned about sugar in that time.
For almost half a century, fats had an unenviable reputation. In 1967, a scientific article was published with the title "Dietary fats, carbohydrates and atherosclerotic vascular disease" - based on a study conducted by Robert McGundy, Frederick J. Steer and Mark Hegstead. In the text, they conclude that fats play a major role in the development of cardiovascular disease. Subsequently, they were excluded from the "healthy" diet, but this did not solve the problem, but exacerbated it - the world was gripped by a real epidemic of obesity, which was in fact associated with increased sugar consumption. And in 2016, it turned out that the same study was funded by the Sugar Research Foundation, an organization whose interest was to prove the health safety of sugar.
Doubts as to whether sugar is really so harmless began even earlier. For example, the acclaimed film "Sugar" was released in 2014. The effects of sugar on our bodies continue to be investigated even now; scientists have learned more about how a carbohydrate diet affects fitness results, as well as debunking the myth that sugar can lift your mood.
