Holy shit! Shit, shit, shit! Who can you trust? You can't do the research yourself... I guess, back to meat and green leafy veggies only. Crap... I'm heading out for a salad.
For decades the sugar industry paid off researchers to downplay the health effects of sweets and pin the blame for increased heart disease risk on saturated fat and cholesterol, a new study reveals. Combing over documents that date back half a century, a University of California, San Francisco researcher discovered that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation commissioned a 1967 Harvard review to discredit emerging claims about the harmful effects of sugar. Industry executives dictated what research would be included in the review and then controlled its findings, which were published in The New England Journal of Medicine, reports The New York Times. Ultimately, the review criticized studies linking sugar and heart disease and emphasized the harmful effects of unhealthy fats. In return, the Harvard researchers were paid the modern equivalent of about $50,000—a conflict of interest that was never disclosed publicly. For the next 50 years, millions of Americans opted for low-fat, sugary foods now associated with obesity and heart disease. “They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades,” says study author Stanton Glantz. “By today’s standards, they behaved very badly.”
Taken from the September 30, 2016 of The Week Magazine.
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