“270 million in 2020 because of COVID-19”

D. Onoafuwa.  “World’s Poorest Being Pushed ‘Closer to the Abyss’ of Famine, Warns WFP Chief,” UN News, July 17, 2020.

“scaremongering movie What the Health (2017)”

What’s the Truth with “What the Health”? In The Doctors, Sept 25, 2017.

“something, including me”

M. Stones.  “Food Manufacturers Hit Back at US Sugar Criticism.” Food Manufacture, Mar 13, 2013.

“marasmus and kwashiorkor”

Google Images. “Marasmus vs. Kwashiorkor.” 

“instead “developed world” kwashiorkor”

M.J. West-Eberhard. “Nutrition, the Visceral Immune System, and the Evolutionary Origins of Pathogenic Obesity,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 116 (3) (2019): 723.

“This disease, called lipodystrophy”

F.F. Chehab. “Obesity and Lipodystrophy–Where Do the Circles Intersect?” Endocrinology 149 (3) (2008): 925.

“diseases of metabolic syndrome”

S.M. Grundy. “Adipose Tissue and Metabolic Syndrome: Too Much, Too Little or Neither,” Eur. J. Clin. Invest. 45 (11)  (2015): 1209.

“the results are suspect”

A. Satija et al. “Understanding Nutritional Epidemiology and Its Role in Policy,” Adv. Nutr. 6 (1)  (2015): 5.

“videotaped them while they ate it”

A.K. Ventura et al. “Understanding Reporting Bias in the Dietary Recall Data of 11-Year-Old Girls,” Obesity 14 (6) (2006): 1073.

“results are virtually guaranteed to be wrong”

J.P.A. Ioannidis. “The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research,” JAMA 320 (10) (2018): 969.

“for tobacco and lung cancer”

M.J. Whitrow et al. “Environmental Exposure to Carcinogens Causing Lung Cancer: Epidemiological Evidence from the Medical Literature,” Respirology 8 (4) (2003): 513.

“get the nutrition that they do need”

S. Ghaisas et al. “Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease: Linking the Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis and Environmental Factors in the Pathogenesis of Systemic and Neurodegenerative Diseases,” Pharmacol. Ther. 158 (2016): 52.

“sugar at 25 percent of total calories”

P. Trumbo et al. “Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, the National Academies. Dietary Reference Intakes for Energy, Carbohydrate, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein and Amino Acids,” J. Am. Diet. Assoc. 102 (2002): 1621.

“and generate insulin resistance”

M.S. Desai et al. “A Dietary Fiber-Deprived Gut Microbiota Degrades the Colonic Mucus Barrier and Enhances Pathogen Susceptibility,” Cell 167 (5) (2016): 1339.