Sugar industry's sweet deal to shift blame to fat
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What happens here is the same with how the tobacco industry funded research in the past that seems to play down the link between smoking and lung cancer. Vested interests (that affects profit margins) makes it such that research reports funded by the MNC that has a direct vested interest, tend to lack credibility.....and can misguide the public....
The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.
The internal industry papers, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and published on Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease - including many of today's dietary recommendations - may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry. "They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades,"
Qns:
1. To what extent is it acceptable for private companies to be involved in
financing scientific research? (Cam. 2011)
2.Scientific research into health and diet is unreliable as it so often
contradicts itself. Is this a fair comment? (Cam. 2013)
What happens here is the same with how the tobacco industry funded research in the past that seems to play down the link between smoking and lung cancer. Vested interests (that affects profit margins) makes it such that research reports funded by the MNC that has a direct vested interest, tend to lack credibility.....and can misguide the public....
The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show.
The internal industry papers, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and published on Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease - including many of today's dietary recommendations - may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry. "They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades,"
Qns:
1. To what extent is it acceptable for private companies to be involved in
financing scientific research? (Cam. 2011)
2.Scientific research into health and diet is unreliable as it so often
contradicts itself. Is this a fair comment? (Cam. 2013)
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