With an initial annual budget of nearly $800,000 ($3.4 million today) collected from the makers of Dixie Crystals, Domino, C&H, Great Western, and other sugar brands, the association recruited a stable of medical and nutritional professionals to allay the publics fears, brought snack and beverage companies into the fold, and bankrolled scientific papers that contributed to a highly supportive FDA ruling, which, the Silver Anvil application boasted, made it unlikely that sugar will be subject to legislative restriction in coming years. The story of sugar, as Tatem told it, was one of a harmless product under attack by opportunists dedicated to exploiting the consuming public. Over the subsequent decades, it would be transformed from what the New York Times in 1977 had deemed a villain in disguise into a nutrient so seemingly innocuous that even the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association approved it as part of a healthy diet

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