Sugar industry paid scientists to promote fat, not sugar as tied to heart disease

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Wow.

See:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/w...-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

"How the Sugar Industry Sifted 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saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show."

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At the time, studies had begun pointing to a relationship between high-sugar diets and the country’s high rates of heart disease. At the same time, other scientists, including the prominent Minnesota physiologist Ancel Keys, were investigating a competing theory that it was saturated fat and dietary cholesterol that posed the biggest risk for heart disease.Mr. Hickson proposed countering the alarming findings on sugar with industry-funded research. “Then we can publish the data and refute our detractors,” he wrote."
 

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