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With the blessing of piss poor "science " from Harvard School of Public Health and the blessings of the Federal Government and their disinformation campaign. Everyone knows this.
curious2
2016 Sep 13, 2:13am
Everyone knows this.
I wish. Most people either lack your IQ or grow up reading misinformation that takes years to unlearn. I felt doubly sad to see that the sugar industry had used the NEJM, which I grew up reading; this report scores one huge win for JAMA against the usually better NEJM. Countless well-intentioned doctors recommended low fat diets, just as they recommended margarine instead of butter, and as their predecessors had recommended cigarettes. It breaks the heart to think of how badly and cynically they got fooled, and the tragic consequences. Wikipedia is full of junk science like this, and PR-driven "consensus," as was discussed yet again recently on PatNet. Also, one User has already Disliked the post, without explanation. Everyone who eats should read at least the excerpt below, and heed the warning:
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.
Even though the influence-peddling revealed in the documents dates back nearly 50 years, more recent reports show that the food industry has continued to influence nutrition science.
Last year, an article in The New York Times revealed that Coca-Cola, the world’s largest producer of sugary beverages, had provided millions of dollars in funding to researchers who sought to play down the link between sugary drinks and obesity. In June, The Associated Press reported that candy makers were funding studies that claimed that children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who do not."
Lions and Tigers don't seem to die of heart disease. But let's air-drop Snickers and Milky Way bars into the jungle and see what happens!
Ceffer
2016 Sep 14, 10:29am
Decades ago the sugar industry paid certain dentists to go around grammar schools, high schools, and dental societies to "prove" that refined sugar did NOT promote tooth decay.
In a whoring universe, the white coat whores are always out there for the food, nicotine, alcohol and drug industries to provide whatever "proof" and publicity they may require to continue selling their stuff.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=0
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