Research
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The Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) sponsored a 1967 literature review that selectively discounted evidence linking sucrose to coronary heart disease (CHD) while promoting fat and cholesterol as the primary dietary causes, thereby successfully shifting public health policy and scientific consensus away from sugar risks.
Be skeptical of nutrition research funded by the food industry, particularly regarding sugar and heart health. Look for independent studies that examine multiple biomarkers, not just cholesterol, and consider mechanistic evidence linking sugar to metabolic issues.
StrongSupportsHIGH confidence
The SRF sponsored its first CHD research project in 1965, a literature review published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which singled out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of CHD and downplayed evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor.
Why this rating
Based on internal industry documents, correspondence, and published reviews.
Source
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research
Cristin Kearns et al. · JAMA Internal Medicine · 2016
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