Sugar Industry Paid for Medical Review in 1960s, Report Finds : wbt

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Sugar Industry Paid for Medical Review in 1960s, Report Finds

Sugar Industry Paid for Medical Review in 1960s, Report Finds

(NEW YORK) -- Potential conflicts from industry-sponsored medical research have been an ongoing concern among public health officials, and a new report looks at how undisclosed funding could have had a major impact on medical findings and decades of research that followed.A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine reviewed a case from the 1960s when three Harvard researchers were paid by a sugar industry group to do research looking at heart disease and sugar consumption.The paper resulting from that research found "limited" evidence for the link between sugar consumption and heart disease, contradicting previously published studies, according to the JAMA report, published Monday.The sugar industry "protected their interest for half a century, which points to the importance of truly independent science," study co-author Stanton Glantz told ABC News.


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Sugar Industry Paid for OG Study Claiming Sugar Was OK -- & We're Paying for it Now

Sugar Industry Paid for OG Study Claiming Sugar Was OK -- & We're Paying for it Now

This month, the Journal of the American Medical Association published old papers proving that in the 1960s, the sugar industry paid off scientists to convince us all that sugar really wasn't that bad for us.It's simultaneously incredibly shocking and not shocking at all -- of course sugar is bad for us and of course the sugar industry has its own best interest at heart ... and of course they'd pay a lot of money to screw us all over.Alright, maybe it's not that shocking after all.But we're still kind of shocked.


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50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat

In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine.The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation wanted to "refute" concerns about sugar's possible role in heart disease.The SRF then sponsored research by Harvard scientists that did just that.The result was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, with no disclosure of the sugar industry funding.


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The Sugar Industry Paid Scientists To Be On Its Side As Early As The 1960s

The Sugar Industry Paid Scientists To Be On Its Side As Early As The 1960s

(Reuters Health) - In the 1960's, before conflict of interest disclosure was required, the sugar industry sponsored research promoting dietary fat as an important cause of coronary heart disease, and downplaying the role of sugar, according to a special report in JAMA Internal Medicine.A 1967 literature review in The New England Journal of Medicine pointed to fat and cholesterol as the dietary culprits of heart disease, glossing over evidence from the 1950s that sugar was also linked to heart disease.According to the new report, the NEJM review was sponsored by the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF), which is today the Sugar Association, although its role was not disclosed at the time.In the report, Laura A. Schmidt of the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues point out that Harvard professor of nutrition Dr. Mark Hegsted co-directed the SRF's first heart disease research project from 1965 to 1966.