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Researchers at the University of California found that 50 years ago some Harvard scientists were paid to lie about sugar damage.

50 years ago, researchers were paid to lie about sugar damage and to argue that it was fats that caused the heart attacks. This is what supports a research published by the University of California San Francisco that, on JAMA Internal Medicine, has published it study titled "Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research. A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents ”in which it is shown that over the years the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF), today the Sugar Association, has funded some professors in nutrition at Harvard University.

Specifically, the Californian researchers show, SRF would publish its first 1967 research in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study considered fats and cholesterol as the main causes of heart attacks and heart problems by not taking sugar consumption as another risk factor. The basic idea was not so much to deny, as to divert attention from sugar and focus on fat and cholesterol.


Not just heart problems. Always the University of California San Francisco he discovered that in those years some studies were commissioned to divert consumers and make them believe that sugar was not the cause of tooth decay. The studies in question date back to the years '60 and' 70, in short, it is true, 50 years ago some studies have omitted the role of sugar in cases of heart attacks emphasizing that of fats and cholesterol, but it is evident that, especially in the last decade, there has been an important stance against the abuse of this food, the same is true for tooth decay.

Un recent US study has in fact highlighted the risks of administering sugar to children between the 2 and the 18 years while a other stressed that this food acts on the hippocampus causing damage similar to those caused by abuse and stress. The fact that today the effects of sugar are evident, however, does not matter, what is alarming is the possibility that, even now, some researchers accept, for money, to divulge scientific disinformation to our detriment.

Source: scienze.fanpage.it

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