Peter Attia· MD
one was a low-fat the embracing of the idea that a low-fat diet is a heart-healthy diet so carbohydrates in general go from being considered inherently fattening which is sort of the conventional wisdom until the 1960s and then they get transformed into heart-healthy diet foods and you may be too young to remember this but we all stopped eating butter and started having pasta and bagels every day and lo and behold everybody starts getting fatter the other thing is high fructose corn syrup came in um 1977 78 high fructose corn syrup 55 comes in which can replace sugar in coca-cola and pepsi and by 1984 it saturates the beverage industry and this coincides with the beginning of the epidemic