Medical Fraud That Started It All: In 1965, The Sugar Industry Paid Two Scientists to Publish Claiming Sugar is Healthy and Fat is Unhealthy

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.

The sugar-funded project in question was a literature review, examining a variety of studies and experiments. It suggested there were major problems with all the studies that implicated sugar, and concluded that cutting fat out of American diets was the best way to address coronary heart disease.


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Two Harvard scientists wrote the paper that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. That should tell you something. They each received what would be equivalent to $50K today.

Sugar consumption is tied to every single chronic disease in the world, and is at the root of the obesity epidemic in the US.