How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/we...me-to-fat.html
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to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.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. "They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades," said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the JAMA paper. The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today's dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat. http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...nap-story.html http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health...-finds-n646836 http://time.com/4485710/sugar-indust...ease-research/ https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/...vard-research/ |
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
I HAD to come back here to see whether this was being discussed. I
think back to all the great blood-test results that low-carbers have reported. I also think of my sister who always plays by the rules and thus until recently wouldn't even eat nuts or other healthful things... and who is on statins even though she has been scrupulous in her avoidance of fats. Is it any wonder that I continue to say that I don't want to meet with a nutritionist!? I wonder how long it will take for health professionals to come around to acceptance and recommendation of low-carb diets? Jean B. David Harmon wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/we...me-to-fat.html 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to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.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. "They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades," said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the JAMA paper. The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today's dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat. http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...nap-story.html http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health...-finds-n646836 http://time.com/4485710/sugar-indust...ease-research/ https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/...vard-research/ |
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
On 13-Sep-16 02:38, David Harmon wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/we...me-to-fat.html 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. "They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades," said Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the JAMA paper. The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today's dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat. http://www.latimes.com/science/scien...nap-story.html http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health...-finds-n646836 http://time.com/4485710/sugar-indust...ease-research/ https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/...vard-research/ An excellent post and links, David. Thank you! While I've known that for years, I didn't know that knowledge was that widespread. I thought it was just something I'd sleuthed out for myself (and possibly misguided or wrong). Thanks for letting me know I wasn't just losing my mind. :) Dusty -- "Successful people exhibit a sense of gratitude, unsuccessful people exhibit a sense of entitlement."--unk |
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