Episode 12: Low-Fat Conspiracy

In 1994, America was obsessed with The Lion King, Friends, and a little green box of cookies that promised a "diet loophole."

This is the story of how we were tricked into the "Low-Fat" craze—a $60 billion industry built on cherry-picked data, corporate espionage, and the silencing of real science.

From Ancel Keys and the "Seven Countries Study" to the secret $50,000 bribe from the sugar industry to Harvard scientists, we’re uncovering the "Lies We Bought." We explore why the McGovern Committee ignored the experts and how Big Food replaced healthy fats with cheap, addictive sugar and "fat replacers" to skyrocket their profit margins.

In this video, I cover: The rise and fall of SnackWell’s cookies. Ancel Keys: From K-Rations to the "War on Fat." The Sugar Research Foundation’s secret influence on medical journals. John Yudkin’s "Pure, White and Deadly" and the campaign to ruin his career. The "Health Halo Effect" and how it’s still used by Nestlé and Kraft Heinz today.