When I gave birth to my daughter, they had to keep me in the hospital for 10 days because I wasn’t doing well. Every time I tried to stand up, I fainted. At one point, according to my husband, I even stopped breathing. He panicked and called a friend, a cardiologist who also worked at the same hospital. The response he got was, “You know, sometimes our wives just want attention when they are going through a hard time.” My husband was furious. He insisted that someone come and actually see what was happening. When the resident arrived, my husband said, “Just watch.” He helped me stand up, and I don’t remember anything after that. When I woke up, the room was full of doctors in a panic. I had stopped breathing again. That was the moment they realized it was not “attention seeking.” #medicalmisogyny
For decades, fat was the primary target of health scares. People gave up butter and eggs to protect their hearts, but that advice was based on a lie.
In the 1960s, a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation realized science was starting to link sugar to heart disease. To protect their interests, they paid Harvard scientists about $50,000 in today's money to publish a review in the New England Journal of Medicine.
That 1967 study downplayed the role of sugar and shifted the blame entirely to saturated fat.
Following this lead, the food industry began removing fat from products and replacing it with sugar to maintain flavor.
This change helped trigger a global rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes.
We didn't get sick by mistake, but by people who followed guidelines written by people on a corporate payroll.