# How the Sugar Industry Funded Research Blaming Fat

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2106275513476272394
- Source account: [@wayofdiscipline](https://x.com/wayofdiscipline)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:15
- Published: 2026-10-03
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat

## Transcript

[0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=2) No butter for me. Fat is the enemy. Who told you fat was the enemy?

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=7) Everybody knows that. It's the science. And who paid for the science?

[0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=12) Paid? What do you mean, paid? Shh. Not another word. Watch this.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=20) The nineteen sixties. America eats more sugar than ever, and nobody's afraid of it. Then studies start tying sugar to heart disease.

[0:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=28) For the sugar men, that's a threat. So they don't argue the science.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=32) They go to Harvard and buy it. They pay three scientists and hand them which studies to read.

[0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=38) Nineteen sixty-seven, the country's top medical journal blame the fat, spare the sugar.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=44) The money is never mentioned. For fifty years, we feared the fat and swallowed the sugar.

[0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=55) Every choice you make starts from an idea someone put in your head.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=59) How many have you swallowed without ever knowing?

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/7N7F7TCIskjc/en/how-the-sugar-industry-funded-research-blaming-fat?t=64) You're free to think what they decide or go quiet, watch, learn. Like, subscribe, and evolve quietly until you're the wolf.