The Food Pyramid Scheme: Sugar's Rise, Fall & Rise Again

27/08/2025 2h 29min Temporada 1 Episodio 7
The Food Pyramid Scheme: Sugar's Rise, Fall & Rise Again

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In this episode we speak to John a biochemist and food scientist with over 40 years of experience with chemistry in food and drug industries from developing new food technologies, enzymes, processes to manufacture the foods of today. With recent news about Coca-Cola switching back to sugar from High-Fructose Corn Syrup, we evaluate if this change is actually beneficial to your health and evaluate its effects on the American economy. We look at Obesity trends in the United States over time and identify the real drivers to Americas obesity epidemic. Not only that, but we give you real solutions to improve your health and save $. We get past the the fluff and BS to tell you what you should really think about this announcement from Robert F Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump and the Make America Healthy Again Movement.For listeners here are graphs from the episode we used in our show notes: https://projectmiddle.com/blogs/news/show-references-for-episode-8-the-food-pyramid-scheme-rise-fall-and-rise-again-of-sugarIf you would like to support the channel by grabbing some merch, or joining us on our Patreon, you'll be helping us continue telling theses stories, defending the 99% and educating along the way visit: www.projectmiddle.comProject Middle: Stories From & For the 99%