How Big Sugar Enlisted Harvard Scientists to Influence How We Eat—in 1965
Industry-funded research sought to discredit links between sugar and heart disease—more than half a century ago.
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The food industry has funded research in an effort to influence nutrition science and health policy for more than half a century, new research out Monday has found.
It's no secret that industry funds such efforts today: An investigation in June, for example, showed how the National Confectioners Association worked with a nutrition professor at Louisiana State University to conclude that kids who eat sugar are thinner than those who don't.