Sugary foods are high in calories but low in nutrients. Until recently, a lot of people didn't realize that sugary foods can be hazardous to health and increase the risk for heart disease and heart failure. People would blame fat for the leading cause of heart problems because of the information science industries were releasing to the public. The truth was that the information was partially false.
It was discovered that the science companies had been lying to keep the blame off sugar. Companies that produced sugar did not want to lose money for sugar and fat being the main cause of heart disease, so they made scientists lie to the public, excluding sugar as hazardous. The sugar associations involved responded by