I remember when shitty cookies like Snack Well came out as a "healthy" fat free snack. The problem was they added more sugar when the fat was removed, and then pushed these death wafers as a "healthy snack". That same company continues the "healthy snack" lies today, although they have added some fat to the current recipes to reduce the sugar that they poisoned people with. It was the consumers choice to buy and eat them, true. But, there is so much adverting BS that the government approves of that it's really disheartening. As the article states, false data was used to push the lie that eating fat was bad, when the opposite is true.
I've seen quite a bit of stuff on this issue specifically over the years, I vaguely remember it being pushed pretty hard by the sugar industry.
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