My husband and I watched a great documentary on the sugar industry just yesterday (this is what we do for fun!). Turns out they funded much of the research on the so-called deleterious effects of dietary fat to draw attention away from the toxicity of sugar when that first becamee publicized by independent researchers in the 1970's. (Yes, these researchers call sugar "toxic," and liken the suppression of data showing this to that of tobacco in the 1960's.)

The hype about cholesterol, as stated, also prompted drug corporations to create a huge market for statins, which, as many of us know here, can be neurotoxic.

We just have to keep reading, and also be aware of research funding (the pro-sugar data in the '70's were the work of the head of Harvard's Medical school, who was on the take big time from the sugar industry, and, by the way, he also worked for the tobacco industry)!