And the putting sugar in everything coincided with pushing low fat foods and reduced fat diets. Which turned out to really, really be the wrong approach. And this also gets to the capitalism I mentioned. There is a market, obviously, for diet foods. You can find no sugar added and low sugar foods, and you can find low fat foods. If you look at the reduced sugar options, they’ve almost always added extra fat. If you look at the reduced fat options, they’ve almost always added sugar. And both of them add extra salt. And they do this because the diet foods sell for shit if they don’t, because they don’t taste good. So the producers compensate by adding more of the stuff they didn’t take out. It’s a part of the reason why people usually don’t lose weight long term by eating processed diet food options.
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