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How the Sugar Industry Hoodwinked You about the Dangers of Sugar, Using Big Tobacco Tactics

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By Dr. Mercola

When sugar consumption declined 12 percent in two years because people were beginning to look at sugar as fattening, and a potential cause of heart disease and diabetes, the sugar industry crafted a mammoth advertising campaign to bankroll scientific papers and hire lobbyists to ensure sugar would not be subject to legislative restriction.

Their decades-long effort is why the USDA‘s dietary guidelines only speak of sugar in vague generalities, and why a top sugar-industry consultant heads the FDA’s sugar review panel, Mother Jones Magazine says.

The featured article, co-authored by Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens, exposes many dirty little secrets the sugar industry would rather you not know, so I recommend reading it in its entirety.

“The story of sugar, as [President of the Sugar Association, John] Tatem told it, was one of a harmless product under attack by ‘opportunists dedicated to exploiting the consuming public,’” they write.

“Over the subsequent decades, it would be transformed from what the New York Times in 1977 had deemed ‘a villain in disguise’ into a nutrient so seemingly innocuous that even the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association approved it as part of a healthy diet.

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