Eric pinto: Subject: [Goanet] How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
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to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote?saturated fat?as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and?published Monday in JAMA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 Internal Medicine 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. ------------------GL responds: Similar conclusions have been surfaced about coconut oil (produced in the tropics) being labelled as the villain in serum cholesterol levels shifting the blame from American produced / sourced cooking oils. Regards, GL
