It's a trap or The fix is in

In 1957, John Yudkin, British physiologist and scientist, began warning about the dangers of sugar and refined sweeteners, which culminated in the book, Pure, White and Deadly (published in English in 1972, with new editions in 1986 and 2012).

Which showed how closely sugar is associated with coronary heart disease and Type II diabetes?

Something interesting happened after that.

Fat content was touted as the real evil, not sugar.

Low fat became the way to go.

Low fat foods don't taste very good in general.

So the food manufacturers figured out if they added more sugar,

It would make up for the lack of fat.

You see where I'm going.

So, we indulged in low fat foods, thinking they were better for us.

Yet, even today the myth of low fat persists.

Around the same time that low fat, higher sugar foods were coming into popular favor, another substance started creeping its way into the food supply.

High Fructose Corn Syrup

 Cheaper

And in moderation, allegedly, quite safe.

Except that, it's in just about everything.

So, it takes some effort to find foods with natural ingredients.

The American food supply and that of most industrialized countries is suspect.

And....we pay the price....