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Today's FoD is being substitued by a thread of quotes from the below article
Explains how, in 1965, The Sugar Research Foundation (SRF)/Sugar Industry bought off scientists to promote sugar+demonize fats.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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The Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) became concerned with evidence showing that a low-fat [high-carb] diet high in sugar could elevate serum cholesterol level…
The SRF’s vice president and director of research, John Hickson, started closely monitoring the field…

Hickson proposed that the SRF “could embark on a major program” to counter “negative attitudes toward sugar.” …
In 1965, the SRF asked Fredrick Stare, chair of the Harvard University School of Public Health Nutrition Department to join its SRFs scientific advisory board

Stare’s industry-favorable positions and financial ties would not be widely questioned until the 1970s...

On July 1, 1965, the SRF’s Hickson visited D. Mark Hegsted, a faculty member of Stare’s department, after publication of articles in Annals of Internal Medicine in June 1965 linking sucrose to CHD...

July 11, the Herald Tribune ran a full-page article … while sugar’s association with atherosclerosis was once thought to be theoretical and supported by limited studies, the new research strengthened the case that sugar increased the risk of heart attacks…

July 13, 1965, 2 days after the Tribune article, the SRF’s executive committee approved PROJECT 226, a literature review on “Carbohydrates and Cholesterol Metabolism” by Hegsted and Robert McGandy, overseen by Stare…

Eventually, the SRF would pay them $6500 ($48900 in 2016)

Hickson emphasized: “Our particular interest had to do with ... sucrose ... I will be disappointed if this aspect is drowned out in a cascade of review and general interpretation.”...

The review concluded there was “no doubt” that the only dietary intervention required to prevent CHD was to reduce dietary cholesterol and substitute polyunsaturated fat for saturated fat in the American diet. Regarding sucrose interventions...

it argued that substituting fat for sucrose caused a large improvement in serum triglyceride levels in healthy individuals [false]…

These internal documents show that the SRF initiated CHD research in 1965 to protect market share and that its first project, a literature review, was published in NEJM in 1967 without disclosure of the sugar industry’s funding or role.