Concealed payments… Corrupt scientists… A secret conspiracy labeled “Project 226”… A dogged lone researcher uncovering a diabolical plot.
It sounds like something from a Michael Crichton novel. But it’s not.
It’s all part of Big Sugar’s shameless effort to pay off nutrition researchers to cover up the deadly health effects of its products.1
In the late 1950s and early ‘60s, there were two competing medical theories about the sudden rise in heart disease in America. Some doctors blamed sugar. Others linked it to saturated fats and cholesterol.
The sugar industry realized it faced huge revenue losses if its products were found to be unhealthy. In 1965, after several studies blamed sucrose (table sugar) for heart disease, Big Sugar hatched a plan to turn the tide.2 They called it Project 226.
They paid three top nutrition researchers at Harvard University to publish research papers that named saturated fat as the culprit for heart disease.3
In 1967, the now-deceased doctors published their work in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. It claimed that dietary cholesterol and saturated fats in meats, butter, and eggs were the primary drivers of heart disease. The paper deflected attention from the role of sugar.
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What nobody knew at the time is that the doctors had received thousands of dollars in secret payments from the Sugar Research Foundation. It’s the trade association for the sugar industry. Today it is known as the Sugar Association.
One of the scientists on Big Sugar’s payroll was Dr. Frederick Stare. He was the chair of Harvard’s Public Nutrition Department. Dr. Stare praised Coca-Cola as “a healthy between-meals snack.” And he recommended sugar as a good “quick energy food.”4
Sugar Industry Scam Finally Revealed
Big Sugar’s payoffs to researchers came to light recently thanks to the efforts of Dr. Cristin Kearns. She is a dentist and a post-doctoral scholar at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco.5
Dr. Kerns started her investigation after she noticed that none of presentations at a conference on diabetes and dental disease seemed to be talking about reducing sugar.
“I thought this was very strange, and I was wondering whether the sugar industry had an influence,” she recalled.6
Simply by using Google, she was able to find damning documents that detail how the sugar industry paid medical researchers to support its interests.
The records show Big Sugar desperately wanted to counter alarming studies that its products caused diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.7
The fact that the Harvard scientists published their sugar industry-sponsored findings in the New England Journal of Medicine made it extremely influential. Then as now, the NEJM was considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal. Family doctors quickly began telling patients to stop eating foods high in fat and cholesterol—and not to worry about sugar.8
At the time, the NEJM did not require researchers to disclose their funding. It started doing so in 1984.
Big Sugar’s Deadly Bribes
Marian Nestle is a professor of nutrition at New York University. She wrote an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine about the sugar payoffs. The faux science promoted by the sugar industry “is appalling,” she said because it likely contributed greatly to the current obesity crisis in the U.S. and the high incidence of heart disease.
Dr. Nestle points out that the deception by Big Sugar continues.
Coca-Cola last year provided millions of dollars to researchers who sought to downplay the link between sugary drinks and obesity. And in June the Associated Press reported that candy makers funded a study claiming that children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who do not.9
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In Good Health,
Angela Salerno
Executive Director, INH Health Watch
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References:
1http://www.livescience.com/56062-sugar-industry-influenced-heart-disease-research.html
2https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/sugar-papers-reveal-industry-role-shifting-national-heart-disease-focus-saturated-fat
3https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/sweet-lies-sugar-industry-tricked-us-worrying-fat-233649580.html
4http://www.economist.com/node/1086689
5https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/sugar-papers-reveal-industry-role-shifting-national-heart-disease-focus-saturated-fat
6https://www.yahoo.com/beauty/sweet-lies-sugar-industry-tricked-us-worrying-fat-233649580.html
7http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
8http://abcnews.go.com/Health/sugar-industry-paid-medical-review-1960s-downplayed-link/story?id=42055301
9http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f9483d554430445fa6566bb0aaa293d1/ap-exclusive-how-candy-makers-shape-nutrition-science