Industry withheld evidence of sugar's negative health effects 50 years ago

A leading U.S. sugar industry research group may have called off a study that linked sugar to negative health effects five decades ago, a recent review from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) has found.
In a paper published on Nov. 21 in the open access journal PLOS Biology, UCSF researchers reviewed internal documents from the U.S. sugar industry. Scientists Cristin Kearns, Dorie Apollonio and Stanton Glantz found that the International Sugar Research Foundation (ISRF), now known as the Sugar Association, funded animal testing to assess the effects of sucrose on the cardiovascular system nearly 50 years ago.Read full Story

Big Sugar Buried These Concerning Health Studies 50 Years Ago