What Doesn't Kill You

Episode 198: Sugar Industry Threw Fat Under the Bus

Episode Summary

Newly revealed documents show how the sugar industry skewed public perception toward fat and away from sugar as the source of obesity and health problems. Marion Nestle, currently writing a new book on the subject will show how they developed this campaign and ran with it over the course of decades.

Episode Notes

Newly revealed documents show how the sugar industry skewed public perception toward fat and away from sugar as the source of obesity and health problems. Marion Nestle, currently writing a new book on the subject will show how they developed this campaign and ran with it over the course of decades.