Rationing

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By examining shifts in nomenclature, the orchestrated influence of the sugar industry on nutritional guidelines, and landmark natural experiments—such as the cessation of wartime sugar rationing—this report synthesizes a comprehensive understanding of how refined carbohydrates have reshaped human health.

However, the expansion of sugarcane plantations in the Americas, coupled with the advent of the European sugar beet industry in the early 1800s, catalyzed a dramatic reduction in price and a corresponding surge in availability.

The resulting industry-funded review, published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine in 1967 without disclosing the corporate funding source, concluded that the only dietary intervention necessary for preventing coronary heart disease was the reduction of saturated fat and cholesterol.