Industry funding of scientific research is ethical; bribing researchers to produce the outcome you want is not. In the 1960’s leading scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health conspired with sugar industry trade representatives to exaggerate the importance of fats and down play the role of carbohydrates as dietary causes of coronary heart disease. It turns out that this was just the beginning of a decades long effort by the sugar industry to deflect public health concerns and promote misleading or even bogus health claims about their products. When manufacturers took out the fat they made up the difference by adding sugar, and we are all paying the price five decades later.
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Scientific Article – Review of data 2016:
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The discredited articles from 1967:
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