Is The Shocking News of the Sugar Industry's Influence Over Harvard Researchers Really Shocking?

Hey, Sugar, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Today, the Journal of the American Medical Association dropped an alleged bombshell when it disclosed that the sugar industry lobby influenced research on coronary heart disease by effectively bribing Harvard researchers to promote the theory that dietary fat, and not sugar, causes heart disease. The story is trending on Facebook at this very moment, and the JAMA Facebook post states that "Policymaking committees should consider giving less weight to food industry-funded studies, and include mechanistic and animal studies as well as studies appraising the effect of added sugars on multiple CHD biomarkers and disease development." All of this is well and good (actually, no, not really), but I've got to ask you--are you really surprised? And now I've got to ask, no, are you really surprised, or just playing along with our news cycle and water-cooler conversations? Shouldn't the public know better by now? Especially those of us who are more than a couple of decades old? In the 1980s, it was common knowledge--science!--that fat causes fatness. Duh. Eat fat, get fat. Same with dietary cholesterol: eat high-cholesterol food like eggs and your cholesterol will spike. And so everyone went fat free, and processed foods replaced fats with sugars. In the 1990s, the sheer massiveness of those who stuffed their faces with fatfreeness and became fat in so doing caused the Western hemisphere to outweigh the East, throwing t...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news