JAMA: Sugar industry conspiracy disclosed

[Valjean]

A new JAMA report reveals a decades long cover up of the hazards of sugar by the Sugar Association.
Just the latest in a long list of corporate crimes, deceptions and cover-ups.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=0

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.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided “compelling evidence” that the sugar industry had initiated research “expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.
“I think it’s appalling,” she said. “You just never see examples that are this blatant.”

Even though the influence-peddling revealed in the documents dates back nearly 50 years, more recent reports show that the food industry has continued to influence nutrition science.

Yet politicians rail against Big Government, advocate the elimination of regulatory agencies, laud the benevolence of corporations and urge us to trust industry to regulate itself.

 

[sun rise]

Corporations can be relied upon to at in the best financial interest of their shareholders and ignore everything else including the harm they do, buying Congress to enact tax loopholes so they can shield profits etc. Relying on them to go against their own financial interest is like asking a carnivore to become a vegetarian. A counterforce is needed and that has to be government.

Maybe someday the world will be different, but not today.

 

[buddhist]

A new JAMA report reveals a decades long cover up of the hazards of sugar by the Sugar Association.
Just the latest in a long list of corporate crimes, deceptions and cover-ups.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=0

Yet politicians rail against Big Government, advocate the elimination of regulatory agencies, laud the benevolence of corporations and urge us to trust industry to regulate itself.

Corporations can be relied upon to at in the best financial interest of their shareholders and ignore everything else including the harm they do, buying Congress to enact tax loopholes so they can shield profits etc. Relying on them to go against their own financial interest is like asking a carnivore to become a vegetarian. A counterforce is needed and that has to be government.

Maybe someday the world will be different, but not today.

The problem are the corporations themselves (whether large, with thousands of employees - or small, with one employee). Their inherent nature makes them rotten to the core, and incompatible with equal, free societies.

 

[psychoslice]

I never touch the stuff, well not knowingly.