How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
By ANAHAD O’CONNORSEPT. 12, 2016
The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.
The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease, including many of today’s dietary recommendations, may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry.
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Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research
A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents FREE ONLINE FIRST
Cristin E. Kearns, DDS, MBA1,2; Laura A. Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH1,3,4; Stanton A. Glantz, PhD1,5,6,7,8
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JAMA Intern Med. Published online September 12, 2016. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5394
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