• 5:53 - 9:21
Dr. Richard Jacoby | The Toxic Effects of Sugar & The Corporate Food Conspiracy
Nina Teicholz, The Big Fat Surprise and Industry Influence
Dr. Jacobi discusses the influence of industry-funded scientists on government agencies, citing the replacement of journalist Nina Teicholz on a government committee by Maureen Story of the Alliance for Potato Research. Teicholz's book, The Big Fat Surprise, argues that dietary fat is beneficial, challenging the 50-year-old narrative that fat causes heart disease. The segment highlights how the pharmaceutical industry profits from statin drugs while the public is "educated into ignorance."