Good morning everyone. The US has a new President and it will be Mr. Donald J. Trump Jr. Now he will start putting his cabinet together. I hope one of the government agency he overhauls is the Health and Human Services and specifically the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Personally I have experienced the disastrous results what it is like to deal with the FDA. But I also hope that he looks at other areas such as nutrition.

About 2 months ago, The New York Times published an article which shows that the Sugar Industry Shifted the Blame for the obesity epidemic in the US to Fat. In the 1960’s the sugar industry paid scientists to link heart disease with saturated fat rather than sugar. These documents were brought to light by Dr. Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). An association called the Sugar Research Foundation paid $50,000 each to three Harvard professors. All of them have died, but one of them went on to become Head of Nutrition at the US Department of Agriculture and helped formulate their nutrition guidelines.

Research done afterwards shows that saturated fats are not the culprit and that you need to eat some fats if you want to lose weight. In the 1960’s, researchers were not required to disclose their sources of funding, but today that is not the case. So whenever you see a study claiming a certain result, look at their funding and look at who is doing it. Always do your own research when it comes to your health.