‘Big Sugar’ Podcast Exposes How Subsidies in the Farm Bill Harm Us All
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The podcast Big Sugar tells the story of sugarcane production on American soil. Over the course of nine episodes, host Celeste…
The podcast Big Sugar tells the story of sugarcane production on American soil. Over the course of nine episodes, host Celeste…
“Corporations are legally required to maximize shareholder profits and therefore have to oppose public health policies that…
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We will first tackle what happens when you do binge out on those indulgences, then it will introduce some great plant-based…
Llamamos "mala praxis" a actos que, bajo estricta responsabilidad profesional, se realizan aún a sabiendas de ser fraudulentos…
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs the UK progresses towards the current milestones indicated by the government regarding the changing…
It seems like conspiracy theories are enveloping us. The new coronavirus was hatched in a lab and foisted on us by China! The…
Over the last two decades, industry funding for medical research has increased globally, while government and non-profit…
Because I cannot leave controversial things well enough alone – at least not when I know there shouldn’t be any controversy …
UCSF researchers report the food and beverage industries push sugary products while obfuscating the significant health issues…
At a 2007 conference on the links between gum disease and diabetes, dentist Cristen Kearns was shocked to hear a keynote…
it's important to allow yourself some indulgence here and there. But, after that fact, how do you get your system back on a…
Who are they to judge? Overcoming anthropometry through fat bodybuilding. The journal of Fat Studies published and has now…
Obesophobia Posted: 16 Aug 2018 11:27 PM PDT In 1976, we ate more than we do today. So why are we fatter? By George Monbiot…
Reporter and Curator: Dr. Sudipta Saha, Ph.D. A heart-healthy diet has been the basis of atherosclerotic cardiovascular…
It’s the stuff of legend. Big sugar orchestrated a sugar conspiracy half a century ago. The industry foisted decades of flawed…
Les maladies cardiovasculaires (MCV) sont la première cause de décès dans le monde et la deuxième pour les femmes en
Un groupe de l’industrie sucrière américaine semble avoir fermé les yeux sur une étude qui produisait des preuves animales…
Deadly sugar addiction – why carbs, not fats, are the problemResearch shows that sugar affects the brain in the same ways as…
In the wake of the Texas church shooting, the danger of the Trump administration’s war on knowledge is clearer than ever.
I have been thinking a lot about crises in fields of science. I don’t mean “grants are shrinking” crises or “we continue to…
At the end of last year JAMA Internal Medicine published a study that showed that the authors of two highly influential papers…
Dear Prof. Hegsted, I am pleased to inform you that your paper Dietary fats, Carbohydrates, and Atherosclerotic Vascular…
A spate of recent reports have accused a top member of Scotland’s food standards agency of bias after revealing her financial…
In response to my commentary in JAMA Internal Medicine late last year, “Food Industry Funding of Nutrition Research: The…
Before Brexit and the US elections, Nature magazine columnist Colin Macilwain set out a challenge: “If Donald Trump were to…
OPINION: In the scientific elite's continuous pursuit of funding, scientists reinforce the ruling nexus of politics and finance…
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On Monday, a prominent medical journal broke with the flurry of studies recommending that Americans eat less sugar. The Annals…
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OPINION: If Brexit signified the end of facts, what does the election of Donald Trump tell us?
Scientists are still trying to puzzle out exactly what Donald Trump’s presidency will mean for science, science spending and…
At a time when public mistrust of science runs high, and non-experts are hard-pressed to separate fact from industry-sponsored…
Burning more calories each day than you consume may have been the diet advice from the past, but that doesn’t work for everyone.
El nuevo enemigo número 1 | Uwe HermannDurante los últimos cuarenta años hemos sido bombardeados con la idea de que las grasas…
Upbeat, industry-backed research that casts doubt on the health impact of sugary drinks should be treated as lobbying against…
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Health Nutritionists and food policy experts say the word is nothing more than a marketing…
By Neil Levy, University of…
Written by Professor Neil Levy, Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of…
This was initially going to be a monster post, but I'm still struggling to organize it all! The things uncovered at every turn…
Using archival documents, a new report examines the sugar industry’s role in coronary heart disease research and suggests the…
Scandal ExposedHow the sugar industry shifted blame to influence what we eatFor decades, people have tried to eliminate fat…
By Sara Stream…
NEJM 15 Sep 2016 Vol…
If you watch Healthcare Triage, it won’t come as news fat and cholesterol aren’t likely as bad as everyone says. And sugar may…
Coronary Heart Disease Research: Sugar Industry influenced national conversation on heart disease – Adoption of Low Fat Diet vs…
Across the nation, and even looking back into the past, health was in the headlines this week. Our presidential candidates were…
A major report has come out identifying in no uncertain terms that sugar is bad and soda companies are lying to us. The sky, as…
Doctor’s don’t want you to self-diagnose and would prefer you got rid of the internet entirely—a sentiment that is quite…
A recent New York Times article about how the sugar industry manipulated research starting in 1965 is getting some attention.
I didn’t think I’d be revisiting this topic again so soon, but damned if Alice Dreger didn’t write something that comes pretty…
Raziskovalci z University of California so v arhivih Sugar Association izkopali dokumente iz 50. in 60. let minulega stoletja…
It might not shock you to know that the sugar industry doesn’t have our best interests in mind. But would you be alarmed to…
Food industries have long opened their wallets to snag a piece of the science pie
Newly discovered documents reveal that Harvard scientists were paid to downplay sugar’s harm and beef up the risk of saturated…
Il est toujours troublant d’apprendre qu’une industrie X est allée jouer dans les pipettes du laboratoire Y. Surtout quand cela…
These days, the link between heavy sugar consumption and heart disease is as clear as a glass of Sprite, and readily…
–Harvard researchers received sugar industry money to write a NEJM review. Newly uncovered documents reveal that 50 years ago…
I ricercatori della University of California hanno scoperto che 50 anni fa alcuni scienziati di Harvard sono stati pagati per…
Just more than a quarter-century ago, Kurt Cobain, the late frontman for ’90s grunge band Nirvana, famously quipped on the…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in the 1960s, a sugar industry executive wrote fat checks to a…
(credit: Andrei Niemimäki) Back in the 1960s, a sugar industry executive wrote fat checks to a group of Harvard researchers…
If you had to script a cheesy high-stakes thriller film about nutrition research, it might look something like this: Powerful…
The sugar industry began funding research that cast doubt on sugar's role in heart disease — in part by pointing the finger at…
The paper was part of a decades-long industry effort to maintain scientific uncertainty about the health consequences of eating…
As my 2 1/2 long time readers have probably noticed, nothing frosts my pumpkin more than corrupt science. Well the gourd has a…
I am not opposed to the pursuit of private money to fund academic research, in principle. Unfortunately, though, such private…
Newly discovered documents show that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to shape the debate around heart disease…
I wrote a commentary for a study published this morning in JAMA Internal Medicine: “Food industry funding of nutrition research…