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From https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/nov/21/sugar-industry-withheld-research-effects-of-sucrose-50-years-ago-study-claims
The link between sugar and increased risk of heart disease is now established, but might have been accepted many years sooner if key findings had been public, the researchers say. Photograph: Daniel Allan/Getty Images
Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims
Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released but industry bodies dispute the findings
Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease report
Jessica Brown
Tuesday 21 November 2017 14.41 EST
Sugars demise from childhood staple to public enemy can be seen everywhere. Chocolate bars are shrinking, sugary drinks are set to be taxed and our recommended daily sugar intake has been slashed in half. But the battle against sugar might have begun sooner if the industry hadnt kept secrets to protect its commercial interests, according to new findings.
In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industrys self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.
Cristin Kearns, one of the researchers who analysed ISRF documents, says, ISRFs research was designed to cast doubt on the importance of elevated triglycerides in the blood as a heart disease risk factor. It is now commonly accepted that triglycerides are a risk factor, but this was controversial for decades. I think the scientific community would have come to consensus about elevated triglycerides being a risk factor for heart disease much sooner [if the research been published].
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Researchers say negative health impacts of sucrose could have been combated sooner had research been released but industry bodies dispute the findings
Sugar lobby paid scientists to blur sugar's role in heart disease report
Jessica Brown
Tuesday 21 November 2017 14.41 EST
Sugars demise from childhood staple to public enemy can be seen everywhere. Chocolate bars are shrinking, sugary drinks are set to be taxed and our recommended daily sugar intake has been slashed in half. But the battle against sugar might have begun sooner if the industry hadnt kept secrets to protect its commercial interests, according to new findings.
In 1967, when scientists were arguing over the link between sugar consumption and increased risk of heart disease, researchers now claim that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF) withheld findings that rats that were fed a high-sugar diet had higher levels of triglycerides (a fat found in the blood) than those fed starch. In a move researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have compared to the tobacco industrys self-preservation tactics, the foundation stopped funding the project.
Cristin Kearns, one of the researchers who analysed ISRF documents, says, ISRFs research was designed to cast doubt on the importance of elevated triglycerides in the blood as a heart disease risk factor. It is now commonly accepted that triglycerides are a risk factor, but this was controversial for decades. I think the scientific community would have come to consensus about elevated triglycerides being a risk factor for heart disease much sooner [if the research been published].
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Sugar industry withheld research effects of sucrose 50 years ago, study claims (Original Post)
sl8
Nov 2017
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I wonder how many people the pyramid diet killed...it had people eating enormous
Demsrule86
Nov 2017
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Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)1. I wonder how many people the pyramid diet killed...it had people eating enormous
amounts of carbs which is really sugar, eliminated practically all healthy fats, limited protein and promoted the use of margarine...one of the worst fats ever. We were much healthier with the old way of eating...thinner and healthier.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)2. Bastards!