The Sugar Industry: Funding Research to Sugarcoat the Truth

Sugar “does not have a unique role in heart disease.” When it comes to dietary claims made by the sugar industry, we need to take them with a grain of salt.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have uncovered documents and communications dating back as far as the 1960s, revealing that the SRF (Sugar Research Foundation, now known as the Sugar Association) funded research to serve its own interest: to create a sweet image of sugar.

At the time, heart disease was on the rise as was the consumption of dietary fat and sugar. Instead of trying to determine the …read more