How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat

"The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggest that five decades of research into the role of nutrition and heart disease, including many of today’s dietary recommendations, may have been largely shaped by the sugar industry."

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Coca-Cola, American Beverage Association are Targets of Lawsuit Charging Deceptive Sugary Drink Marketing

"The Coca-Cola Company, with the help of the American Beverage Association, is deceiving consumers about the harms of consuming Coke and other sugar-sweetened beverages, according to a complaint filed in federal court in California.  The suit contends that the beverage giant and its trade association are engaged in an unlawful campaign of deception to mislead and confuse the public about the science linking consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease."

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The case against sugar

"SUGAR IS TOXIC. The fat and sodium we’ve spent so much time fretting over may in fact be the lesser of the evils in our diet. New evidence suggests that sugar—and pos- sibly artificial sweeteners—might be the ulti- mate cause of high blood pressure, high choles- terol, heart disease, diabetes, and liver disease."

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World health officials want super-size tax on soda and sugary drinks, but are countries ready to swallow that?

"The World Health Organization is backing a controversial remedy to reverse the global rise in obesity and type 2 diabetes — a 20% to 50% soda tax.

The recommended tax should not be limited to soda, the WHO said Tuesday. It should apply to all sugar-sweetened beverages, a category that includes sports drinks, energy drinks, fruit punch, sweetened iced tea, vitamin waters and lemonade."

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How dietary guidelines need to change

"For the past 35 years, we’ve been following the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans (“Guidelines”). During this time, there’s been a sharp increase in nutrition-related diseases, particularly obesity and diabetes, and childhood obesity and diabetes diagnoses have quadrupled.

Why is that? The answer is that in many cases, the Guidelines have been shown to be based on weak science, and the government’s evidence reviews have failed to comprehensively or systematically consider the best and most current science." 

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It is always like that: The traditional medical doctor issues the bill for you pay, but at the end your brain anyhow ends up to "Cure it Yourself"!