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“They were able to derail the discussion about sugar for decades,” said
Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine at U.C.S.F. and an author of the JAMA
Internal Medicine paper.
The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research
Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard
scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today’s dollars to publish a 1967
review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review
were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the
prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between
sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat.
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Last year, an article in The New York Times revealed that Coca-Cola, the world’s
largest producer of sugary beverages, had provided millions of dollars in
funding to researchers who sought to play down the link between sugary drinks
and obesity. In June, The Associated Press reported that candy makers were
funding studies that claimed that children who eat candy tend to weigh less than
those who do not.
The Harvard scientists and the sugar executives with whom they
collaborated are no longer alive. One of the scientists who was paid by the sugar
industry was D. Mark Hegsted, who went on to become the head of nutrition at
the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the
forerunner to the federal government’s dietary guidelines. Another was Dr.
Fredrick J. Stare, the chairman of Harvard’s nutrition department.
The revelations are important because the debate about the relative harms
of sugar and saturated fat continues today, Dr. Glantz said. For many decades,
health officials encouraged Americans to reduce their fat intake, which led many
people to consume low-fat, high-sugar foods that some experts now blame for
fueling the obesity crisis.
“It was a very smart thing the sugar industry did, because review papers,
especially if you get them published in a very prominent journal, tend to shape
the overall scientific discussion,” he said.
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“I think it’s appalling,” she said. “You just never see examples that are this
blatant.”
Dr. Willett said the researchers had limited data to assess the relative risks
of sugar and fat. “Given the data that we have today, we have shown the refined
carbohydrates and especially sugar-sweetened beverages are risk factors for
cardiovascular disease, but that the type of dietary fat is also very important,” he
said.
The documents show that in 1964, John Hickson, a top sugar industry
executive, discussed a plan with others in the industry to shift public opinion
“through our research and information and legislative programs.”
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Harvard’s Dr. Hegsted reassured the sugar executives. “We are well aware
of your particular interest,” he wrote, “and will cover this as well as we can.”
“Let me assure you this is quite what we had in mind, and we look forward
to its appearance in print,” Mr. Hickson wrote.
After the review was published, the debate about sugar and heart disease
died down, while low-fat diets gained the endorsement of many health
authorities, Dr. Glantz said.
A version of this article appears in print on September 13, 2016, on Page A1 of the New York edition with
the headline: Sugar Backers Paid to Shift Blame to Fat.
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