Sugar Industry Attempts to Manipulate the Science
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 22/04/2019

How the food industry responds to “health food faddists”.
The sugar industry’s line, “sugar is a cheap safe food,” comes from the founder and chair of Harvard’s nutrition department, Fredrick Stare, long known as “Harvard’s sugar-pushing nutritionist.” Not only did the sugar industry try to influence the direction of dental research, but heart disease research as well, paying Stare and colleagues to write this review to help downplay any risk from sugar. 

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Industry influence on research is by no means a new topic here on NutritionFacts.org. I’ve covered similar issues across a variety of industries in: 
• Food Industry Funded Research Bias (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-industry-funded-research-bias/)
• BOLD Indeed: Beef Lowers Cholesterol? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/bold-indeed-beef-lowers-cholesterol/)
• Big Food Using the Tobacco Industry Playbook (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/big-food-using-the-tobacco-industry-playbook/)
• American Medical Association Complicity with Big Tobacco (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/american-medical-association-complicity-big-tobacco/)
• Sprinkling Doubt: Taking Sodium Skeptics with a Pinch of Salt (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/sprinkling-doubt:-taking-sodium-skeptics-with-a-pinch-of-salt)
• Does Cell Phone Radiation Cause Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Does-Cell-Phone-Radiation-Cause-Cancer)
• Researching the Health Effects of Marijuana (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Researching-the-Health-Effects-of-Marijuana)
• Will Cannabis Turn Into Big Tobacco? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/will-cannabis-turn-into-big-tobacco)
• How the Dairy Industry Designs Misleading Studies (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-the-dairy-industry-designs-misleading-studies)
• Is Butter Really Back? What the Science Says (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-butter-really-back-what-the-science-says)

And regarding sugar, check out these popular videos:
• If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-about-fruit)
• How Much Fruit Is Too Much? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-fruit-is-too-much)
• How Much Added Sugar Is Too Much? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-added-sugar-is-too-much/)
• Does Diet Soda Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Regular Soda? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-diet-soda-increase-stroke-risk-as-much-as-regular-soda)

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Image credits: Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies, Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens, Mother Jones November/December 2012 Issue and 422737 via pixabay

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