Health
50 Years Ago, The Sugar Industry Funded Research To Blame Fat For Heart Disease
In the 1960s, a sugar industry group called the Sugar Research Foundation funded research that highlighted the dangers of fat and minimized the role of sugar in developing heart disease.
By Paula Gallagher2 min read
This behind-the-scenes manipulation was exposed in a 2016 article in JAMA Internal Medicine, written by Stanton Glantz, Cristin Kearns, and Laura Schmidt. The authors examined internal industry documents, as well as the process of the sponsored research conducted by Harvard scientists and published in the eminent New England Journal of Medicine in 1967, and came to the conclusion that the sugar industry abused the scientific process to inappropriately place the blame for heart disease on fat.