Harvard Researchers Paid to Support Sugar
A recent story that has been appearing on the internet is that Harvard Researchers Paid to Support Sugar and this is the reason why sugar and carbohydrates have been exonerated in their role of causing heart disease. Fats and saturated fats have unfairly blamed for the obesity and heart disease epidemic.
The source for this information is a Gary Taubes and Cristin Couzens Kearns web page article 1 and a paper by Cristin Kearns and colleagues. 2
The 1980 Dietary Guidelines for Americans refered to in the preceeding paragraphs refers to the two editions of the Dietary Goals for the United States dated February 1972 and November 1972. The 1980 date is incorrect.
The actual recommendations are below which DID NOT focus on “reducing total fat, saturated fat, and dietary cholesterol for CHD prevention” as claimed. The recommendations were:
- Increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables and whole grains.
- Decrease the consumption of refined and other process sugars and foods high in such sugars.
- Decrease the consumption of foods high in total fat, and partially replace saturated fats, whether obtained from animal of vegetable sources, with poly-unsaturated fats.
- Decrease the consumption of animal fat, and choose meats, poultry and fish which will reduce saturated fat intake.
- Except for young children, substitute low-fat and non-fat milk for whole milk, and low-fat dairy products for high fat dairy products.
- Decrease the consumption of butterfat, eggs, and other high cholesterol sources. Special consideration should be given for easing the cholesterol goal for pre-menopausal women, young children and the elderly in order to obtain the nutritional benefits of eggs in the diet.
- Decrease the consumption of salt and foods high in salt content.
Last updated on Friday 30 January 2026 at 22:25 by administrators
Post Type: postFootnotes
- Taubes, G. & Kearns Couzens, C. (2012) Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies – Mother Jones.
- Kearns, C. E. et al. (2016) Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents. JAMA Internal Medicine. 176 (11), 1680.
- Taubes, G. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease. New York, NY: Knopf; 2007.
- Teicholz, N. The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster; 2014.
- McGovern, G., Talmadge, H. E., Kennedy, E. M., Nelson, G., Cranston, A., Humphrey, H. H., Percy, C. M., Dole, R., Bellmon, H., Hatfield, M. O., Schweiker, R. S., Stone, A. J., & Matz, M. L. (1972, November). Dietary Goals for the United States—Second Edition.
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