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In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded its own research on the effects of sugar on health.

The results didn't look good - for them. Studies revealed a high-sugar diet may increase risks associated with heart attacks, strokes & certain cancers.

But... rather than share emerging findings, the study was curiously halted & the industry successfully shifted blame onto fats.

It took decades to widely link sugary diets to disease. It didn't have to. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/21/565766988/what-the-industry-knew-about-sugars-health-effects-but-didnt-tell-us #food #science

What The Industry Knew About Sugar's Health Effects, But Didn't Tell Us

The sugar industry pulled the plug on an animal study it funded in the 1960s. Initial results pointed to a link between sugar consumption and elevated triglycerides, which raises heart disease risk.
NPR
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JD Harvey
JD Harvey
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Another good read on what Big Sugar did

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-conspiracy-robert-lustig-john-yudkin

The sugar conspiracy

The Long Read: In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined.
Ian Leslie (The Guardian)
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Wyatt H Knott
Wyatt H Knott
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I learned some of the truth about sugar the first time I tried the Atkins diet, and read Atkins' book. Humans have always had access to fats, and our metabolisms are wired to cope with it. Not so with refined sugars, which are much more dangerous.
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MerryShari
MerryShari
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Makes me wonder how many more studies like this have been buried or twisted to show different results. I’ve been following Dr. Greger. He sifts through all the data and who funded the studies to find the truth. https://nutritionfacts.org #drgreger #nutrition

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Rose
Rose
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Aye, my husband, doing his degree in 1970s, did a project on sugar and was horrified!
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Kathryn
Kathryn
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I lived through those decades. In the sixties, we did see articles about the dangers of sugar. Then suddenly, in the seventies, the dietary culprit was fat. Every health article, it seemed, discussed the detriments of fat. Sugar was rarely mentioned, unless you read alternative rags that promoted “natural” sugars, such as honey and “raw” cane sugar. Even when diabetes rates soared, the blame was placed more often on fast food and its high carbs.
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Alison Creekside
Alison Creekside
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"Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding.

I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room.

The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist
7:06 AM · Jan 2, 2023"

https://twitter.com/calleymeans/status/1609929026889711617
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Dean
Dean
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Read this shortly after it was published in 1975. I immediately reduced my sugar consumption for life!
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Ashwin Baindur
Ashwin Baindur
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A prime reason why people don't trust health authorities anymore is because the American food and pharma industries have always influenced health decisions, whether it was with regards to statins/cholesterol, various health parameters, efficacy and safety of drugs to suppression of the side effects of drugs, etc. The same then gets propagated all over the world.
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Sheril Kirshenbaum
Sheril Kirshenbaum
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Once my research comes out, I will have a lot more to say about the influence of lobbyists & industry in politics & policies.

Will def be covering in detail in my newsletter.
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Jonathan O’Donnell
Jonathan O’Donnell
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I'll see your sugar industry, and raise you a South African asbestos mine. In the 1960s -70s, their disinformation program was so extensive that the won international awards for occ health and safety.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29895204/

Jock McCulloch (1945-2018): A Tribute - PubMed

Jock William McCulloch, who died at Melbourne, Australia, in January 2018, was one of the foremost historians of occupational health of his generation.
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