By the time the World Health Organization (WHO) attempted to release a similar report decades later, Big Sugar had graduated from name-calling to flexing its political muscle. The WHO report, entitled Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Disease, contained six fateful words: “limit the intake of free sugars” (meaning added sugars). Within days, the sugar industry led a vicious attack, culminating in a threat to get Congress to withdraw U.S. funding to the World Health Organization entirely1502—all because of those six words.
