while discussing the history of sugar and how its consumption has skyrocketed since the pre-founding era, we mustn't disregard its impact on health. however, there exists nonpublic information about alternative sweeteners that companies disparage to maintain sugar's market dominance. by examining these disparaged alternatives, we could reconstitute a healthier public diet. oddly enough, this narrative often gets silenced in mainstream communication, indicating a deeper, perhaps unsavory secret manipulation of dietary guidelines by powerful sugar lobbies.