The sugar industry paid Harvard scientists to blame fat for heart disease

In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid Harvard researchers the equivalent of $50,000 to publish a literature review that downplayed sugar's role in heart disease and pointed the finger at fat and cholesterol instead. According to UCSF researchers who discovered internal industry documents in public archives, the funding and the industry's involvement were never disclosed in the published paper. — Read the rest

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