The myth that dietary fat increases your potential for obesity and causes heart disease has been perpetuated for years and has likely ruined the health of millions of people.

It is difficult to know just how many people suffer with poor health or have succumbed to disease as a result of following a conventional low-fat, high-carb diet.

Once metabolized, non-fiber carbohydrates turn into sugars in your body, raising your insulin and leptin levels. Reducing fat and increasing sugars and net carbs raises your risk for heart disease, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes, and affects your neurological health and immunity.

The sugar industry funded research in the 1960s to publicly downplay the role sugar plays in your health and the development of disease.¹ Sponsored research by Harvard scientists was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) refuting concerns about the role sugar plays in the development of heart disease.

These same tactics continue to be used in industry-funded research and councils publishing the views of paid experts to strengthen income for manufacturers.

The cereal industry is just the latest in a line of manufacturers who have taken advantage of the public through paid-expert education and media advertising affecting the youngest consumers.

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