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Around the world, obesity levels are rising. More people are now overweight than undernourished;
two thirds of British adults are overweight and one in four of us is classified as obese. In the
first of this three-part series, Jacques Peretti traces those responsible for revolutionizing our eating
habits, to find out how decisions made in America 40 years ago influence the way we eat now.





The Men Who Made Us Fat S01E01
Air-date: Wednesday June 14th, 2012

Peretti travels to America to investigate the story of High Fructose Corn Syrup. The sweetener
was championed in the US in the 1970s by Richard Nixons Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to make
use of the excess corn grown by farmers. Cheaper and sweeter than sugar, it soon found its way
into almost all processed foods and soft drinks. HFCS is not only sweeter than sugar, it also
interferes with Leptin, the hormone that controls appetite, so once you start eating or drinking
it, you don’t know when to stop.

British nutritionist John Yudkin was one of the first to raise the dangers of sugar but his
findings were discredited in America at the time. Meanwhile, a US Congress report blamed fat,
not sugar, for the disturbing rise in cardio-vascular disease and the food industry responded
with ranges of ‘low fat’, ‘heart healthy’ products in which the fat was removed – but the
substitute was yet more sugar.

Meanwhile, in 1970s Britain, food manufacturers used advertising campaigns to promote the idea
of snacking between meals. Outside the home, fast food chains offered clean, bright premises
with tempting burgers cooked and served with a very un-British zeal and efficiency. Twenty
years after the arrival of McDonalds, the number of fast food outlets in Britain had quadrupled.





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