In 2016, UCSF researchers discovered internal documents showing the Sugar Research Foundation paid three Harvard scientists $50,000 (equivalent to $600K+ today) in the 1960s to publish a review in the New England Journal of Medicine that downplayed sugar's role in heart disease and blamed dietary fat instead. This influenced decades of nutritional policy, including the US dietary guidelines that promoted low-fat, high-carb diets.
The sugar industry paid Harvard scientists to shift blame for heart disease from sugar to fat
βThe sugar industry secretly funded research to blame fat for heart disease. Decades of dietary advice were corrupted by corporate interests.β
π The Receipts
βοΈ The Record, Side by Side
What they said vs. what the evidence shows
βWe question this author's continued attempts to reframe historical debate. The Sugar Association always seeks to support scientific research.β
β Sugar Association Β· Sep 2016
π They Laughed At Us
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