The scientific consensus that all calories are equally fattening is outdated and dangerous.
Opinion | Big Sugar’s Secret Ally? Nutritionists (Published 2017)
The scientific consensus that all calories are equally fattening is outdated and dangerous.
The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health | Hacker News
I've lost about 100lbs in 2.5 years... The only thing that I really changed was doing a Keto diet. I've learned a lot about nutrition along the way, and it's amazing how bad nutrition info was when I was growing up..
The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie
The Long Read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie
The Long Read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so wrong for so long?
Is Sugar Toxic? (Published 2011)
That it makes us fat is something we take for granted. That it might also be making us sick is harder to accept.
Sugar’s Sick Secrets
The sugar industry has driven decades of biased research that shirk sugar's responsibility for chronic disease. UCSF researchers are uncovering thousands of industry documents to combat this misinformation, and steer Americans away from what is becoming a growing health crisis.
The food industry is gaslighting us on the harms of sugar
Questionable industry-funded review tries to cast doubt on harms of excess sugar.
Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades
Harvard researchers got hefty sums to downplay role of sweets in heart disease.
Death of the calorie
For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure
Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways
Substances such as saccharin may alter the type of bacteria inside us, could lead to obesity
This study 40 years ago could have reshaped the American diet. But it was never fully published.
A fuller accounting of the results of a massive government-funded experiment on fatty foods challenges the conventional advice about what is healthy, and what is not.
Sugar industry withheld research into effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims
Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released – but industry bodies dispute the findings
Least resistance weight loss
The weight-loss industry preys on scientific naivete, often conflating good nutrition with the caloric deficit necessary to lose weight.
It’s the Sugar, Folks
A new study shows solid links between added sugar and the onset of diabetes.
Dietary Carbohydrates Impair Healthspan and Promote Mortality
The prospective cohort study, named PURE, found that in >135,000 participants from 18 countries, nutritive carbohydrates increase human mortality, whereas dietary fat reduces it, requesting a fundamental change of current nutritional guidelines. Experimental evidence from animal models provides synergizing mechanistic concepts as well as pharmacological options to mimic low-carb or ketogenic diets.
