Sugar Industry Shifted Heart Blame

In the 1960s, the Sugar Research Foundation paid three Harvard scientists the modern equivalent of about $50,000 to review research on sugar, fat, and heart disease. Their 1967 review appeared in “The New England Journal of Medicine” and downplayed sugar while pointing to saturated fat and cholesterol as the main dietary culprits. The funding was not disclosed, and the review helped steer public health attention toward low-fat diets for decades.

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