50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (2016)

Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by quickthrower2 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @05:53PM (#26127778)

I think if people had to drink prison hooch or wait weeks to brew their own substandard beer, as opposed to drinking bottled craft beer or tasty wines there would be less alcohol consumption.

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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by nicoburns on Saturday February 13, 2021 @08:09PM (#26128718)

The history of the US prohibition says otherwise. Or rather, while overall consumption of alcohol probably did drop, the effect on society of pushing it underground was not positive.

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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by efreak on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:38AM (#26131508)

From memory, alcohol consumption actually _increased_ during prohibition.

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Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to B... by pixelbash on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:35PM (#26128100)

I suspect while that might be true initially people would soon get really quite good at it.

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