Grace Price, high school student and food activist

"According to a meta-analysis in the NIH, the U.S. population consumes, quote, more than 300% of the daily recommended amount of sugar, unquote. But why did we start eating so much sugar? Now let me quote a 1954 speech from the president of the Sugar Research Foundation, the earliest form of the sugar industry: "If you put the middle-aged man on a low-fat diet, it takes just five days for the blood cholesterol to get down to where it should be. If the carbohydrate industries were to recapture this 20% of the calories in the US diet, and if sugar maintained its present share of the carbohydrate market, this change would mean an increase in the per capita consumption of sugar more than a third, with a tremendous improvement in general health." They spent $5.3 million in 2016 dollars to inform people who had no idea what biochemistry even was, that sugar is what sustains our population. They also largely discouraged the consumption of animal-based saturated fat, which has sustained humans for a large part of our existence in order to add more sugar and carbohydrates, which didn't previously exist in excess. Does this mean our modern diets was dictated by men in power who had enough money to shift the tides of scientific research towards a mere hypothesis that was in their best interest and to shun research that contested it. The sugar industry is still having this power. One point eight million dollars was donated to the American Cancer Society by Coca-Cola to support the ideology that cancer is a genetic disease and not a metabolic one that would coincidentally be impacted by our sugar consumption."