22 thoughts on “Big Sugar joins Big Tobacco and Big Oil in the Bogus Science Hall of Shame”
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…
The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today’s dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat and heart disease. The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, and the article, which was published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, minimized the link between sugar and heart health and cast aspersions on the role of saturated fat.
Ooh, I don't think I've ever had those, but I want them with all of my heart! I have had fried squash blossoms before, in some fancy-shmancy restaurant, so I can imagine them, tasting of pumpkin and floral notes… yum!
|and in 1969 came this ….. Coincidence? |
[I apologize in advance ]
Sadly, the accusation that research science is bought and paid for, has spread to be a blanket meme.
I'm your private scientist, a scientist for money
I'll research what you want me to do
I'm your private scientist, a scientist for money
Anyone's checkbook will do
I used to be stone-cold addicted to Diet Coke, up to drinking 3-4 cans every afternoon. And I was wondering why I was feeling so rotten and stressed all of the time. So I stopped, cold turkey, and after the withdrawal phase, I felt so much better. Now, when I have that rare soda, it's got to be one with sugar. Because aspartame, or whatever they use these days to as artificial sweeteners, does not agree with me.
Anyway, that's a round-about way of saying that our national shunning of sugar has led to other dietary practices that probably aren't necessarily healthful either. More research needed.
I could stretch a 12-pack of root beer out for over a year, so I save the fridge space and just get one now and then. And yes, it must have sugar. Or more likely, HFCS, I don't read the fine print.
Casting asparagus: now that's going too far!
You'd rather gently dip your asparagus into your saturated fat?
Deep fried everything is back on the menu!
Ever had deep-fried pumpkin flowers (fiori di zucca)? So good….
Ooh, I don't think I've ever had those, but I want them with all of my heart! I have had fried squash blossoms before, in some fancy-shmancy restaurant, so I can imagine them, tasting of pumpkin and floral notes… yum!
At my place, we don't take the gourd's name in vain.
La Signora_Quarantanova tells me you can find pumpkin flowers at Trader Joe's these days.
why do you hate
sodafreedom?|and in 1969 came this ….. Coincidence? |
[I apologize in advance ]
Sadly, the accusation that research science is bought and paid for, has spread to be a blanket meme.
Write like hell… https://youtu.be/PU7KACnj2zc
That car, though.
That thing might get 7, maybe 8 miles to the gallon! Had seat belts, though.
Gallon of what, motor oil?
I'm your private scientist, a scientist for money
I'll research what you want me to do
I'm your private scientist, a scientist for money
Anyone's checkbook will do
A low-point in American pop music. Made the Monkees seem authentic.
All I really got from that is, for $1 a pop, Sabrina the Teenaged Witch is a
whsex worker.Dammit, there's a Sugar Daddy joke in here somewhere…
"part of this (almost) complete cover-up"
I used to be stone-cold addicted to Diet Coke, up to drinking 3-4 cans every afternoon. And I was wondering why I was feeling so rotten and stressed all of the time. So I stopped, cold turkey, and after the withdrawal phase, I felt so much better. Now, when I have that rare soda, it's got to be one with sugar. Because aspartame, or whatever they use these days to as artificial sweeteners, does not agree with me.
Anyway, that's a round-about way of saying that our national shunning of sugar has led to other dietary practices that probably aren't necessarily healthful either. More research needed.
I could stretch a 12-pack of root beer out for over a year, so I save the fridge space and just get one now and then. And yes, it must have sugar. Or more likely, HFCS, I don't read the fine print.
Looking at the label, Diet Coke has more caffeine than high-test.
I find the high-test slows me down anyway because of the terrible taste the sugar and resultant bacteria leave in my mouth not long after.
Porter?
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