Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades
Back in the 1960s, a sugar industry executive wrote fat checks to a group of Harvard researchers so that they’d downplay the links between sugar and heart disease in a prominent medical journal-and the researchers did it, according to historical documents reported Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine .
Yet another one to file under “feloniously bad research”. It is hard to underestimate the effect of this research and the effect from these researchers. My ‘faith’ in scientific method is not shaken. Scientists did help find this bad faith. Still…the further erosion of my trust is deepening. When will the first scientist go to jail for these kinds of breaches. Those mentioned in this article are surely culpable in the misery and death associated with lifelong obesity.
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Yeah, I read about this some time ago. Growing up in a health-nuts-before-their-time household, we consumed relatively little refined sugar. I’m just as skeptical of the “low fat” (oftentimes manufacturers replace fat with sugar) and “high carb” schools of thought. Of course, the “eat few eggs” and “margarine is healthier than butter” mantras have also been torpedoed. “Most things in moderation, veggies in abundance, all foods as close to their origin as possible” is my motto, even though not always my practice.