Despite Best Efforts, Doughnut Makers Must Fry, Fry Again describes a low-fat fraud:
Robert Ligon, a 68-year-old health-food executive, is scheduled to begin serving 15 months in a federal prison Tuesday. His crime: willfully mislabeling doughnuts as low-fat.Exhibit A: The label on his company’s ‘carob coated’ doughnut said it had three grams of fat and 135 calories. But an analysis by the Food and Drug Administration showed that the doughnut, glazed with chocolate, contained a sinfully indulgent 18 grams of fat and 530 calories.
Imagine meticulously counting every fat gram and calorie in your diet — and gaining weight anyway.