Sugar industry funded studies to blame fat for heart disease : 9news

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Sugar industry funded studies to blame fat for heart disease

Sugar industry funded studies to blame fat for heart disease

Nutritional information is printed on cartons of CocaCola displayed in a grocery store.Doctors at the annual American Medical Association meeting in Chicago this week have called for a "fat tax" on sugary soft drinks to help fight obesity in the U.S (Photo: Tim Boyle, 2006 Getty Images)KUSA - The sugar industry funded research back in the 1960s to blame fat for heart disease while downplaying sugar's role, according to an analysis of newly uncovered documents.The documents were discovered by a University of California – San Francisco researcher.They show that the Sugar Research Foundation first sponsored a research project in 1965 that singled out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary heart disease.


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Sugar industry 'began blaming heart disease on fat as early as 1960s'

Sugar industry 'began blaming heart disease on fat as early as 1960s'

The sugar industry began funding research that cast doubt on sugar's role in heart disease - in part by pointing the finger at fat - as early as the 1960s, according to an analysis of newly uncovered documents.The analysis , which was published earlier this week, is based on correspondence between a sugar trade group and researchers at Harvard University.It marks the latest example of how food and beverage makers attempt to shape public understanding of nutrition.In 1964, the group now known as the Sugar Association internally discussed a campaign to address "negative attitudes toward sugar" after studies began emerging linking sugar with heart disease, according to documents dug up from public archives.


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Cancer overtakes heart disease as Australia's biggest killer

Cancer overtakes heart disease as Australia's biggest killer

Cancer has become Australia's biggest killer, overtaking heart disease for the first time to take more lives than any other ailment, a government health agency said in a report released on Tuesday.Indigenous Australians also fare much worse than non-indigenous on almost every health score, according to Australia's Health 2016 report, complied by the government's Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and published every two years.The total number of deaths from cancer was 44,100 in 2013, the institute said, for the first time surpassing the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and stroke.Lung cancer is Australia's most common fatal cancer.