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snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 04:13 PM Apr 2013

Big Sugar's secret documents echo tobacco tactics: intent to use science to defeat critics

- secret documents uncovered by dentist


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When Cristin Couzens went on the hunt for evidence that Big Sugar had manipulated public opinion, she had no idea what she was doing. She was a dentist, not an investigative reporter. But she couldn't let go of the nagging suspicion that something was amiss.

Her obsession started in an unlikely place, at a dental conference in Seattle in 2007 about diabetes and gum disease. When one speaker listed foods to avoid, there was no mention of sugar. "I thought this was very strange," Couzens said. And when a second speaker suggested sugary drinks were a healthy choice, she chased him down at the end of the conference to make sure she'd heard him correctly. "How could you possibly recommend sweet tea as a healthy drink?" she asked the speaker, who paused just long enough to say, "There is no evidence that links sugar to chronic disease," before he bolted out the door.


"I was so shocked by that statement," she said, "I felt obligated to do a little bit of research, thinking perhaps the sugar industry had somehow had an influence over the lack of advice to limit sugar intake to prevent and control diabetes. That's what set me off."

She quit her job, exhausted her savings and spent 15 months scouring library archives. Then one day she found what she was looking for, in a cardboard box at the Colorado State University archives




http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/03/08/f-vp-crowe-big-sugar.html




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Big Sugar's secret documents echo tobacco tactics: intent to use science to defeat critics (Original Post) snagglepuss Apr 2013 OP
the corn syrup industry has taken over and killed the sugar crowd nt msongs Apr 2013 #1
There is absolutely no nutrition in sugar. djean111 Apr 2013 #2
Spot on! libodem Apr 2013 #3
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
2. There is absolutely no nutrition in sugar.
Tue Apr 30, 2013, 04:27 PM
Apr 2013

Just calories.
"When it comes to corn sugar or cane sugar, your body doesn't know the difference. Sugar is sugar."
Makes me angry every time I hear that piece of crap commercial - because no, HFCS is worse than sugar, but even if it was not - there is no fucking nutrition in sugar. No vitamins, no minerals.

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