14 February 2025Corporate Funding

Impact of Corporate Funding

Given our distrust of authorities, we want to hear that we have been deceived by the medical establishment into believing that their advice on fats and saturated fats is based on myths.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans are revised jointly by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services every 5 years. Originally, the USDA was responsible. The US Department of Agriculture represents the interests of the agricultural industry.

In 2002, dietary guidelines report emphasised that total dietary protein as high as 35% of total diet calories would “minimise risk for those chronic diseases”. This was not based on scientific evidence.

A lawsuit forced the committee to reveal that the majority of its members at the time had an association with the dairy industry.

The message of the Astrup’s paper is that we should be adding healthy foods (red meat, eggs, dairy and chocolate) to our diet to overcome heart disease and type 2 diabetes. ¹

Consuming red meat, eggs, dairy or chocolate – or a much, much more profitable nutraceutical supplement is not going to change an unhealthy diet into a healthy meal – no matter how desperately that we wish that it would.

A nutraceutical is a manufactured product that is derived from food or part of a food that purportedly provides health benefits.

Professor Manohar Garg was one of the authors of Astrup’s paper that advocated eating more red meat, eggs, dairy and chocolate.

In 2017, the University of Newcastle and the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) were performing 5 trials involving Professor Garg that were to investigate and encourage the consumption of expensive nutraceuticals.

A four week intervention trial to investigate the effects of plant sterols and curcumin combined in a dip. According to Professor Garg, “the foods we use will be delicious and versatile so volunteers can easily add them to their regular diet. We hope blood cholesterol, blood pressure and inflammation markers will all reduce – these are the three main risk factors for coronary disease”.
A study involving people with a BMI ranging between 25 and 45. They will receive two fish oil tablets each day for 12 weeks to determine whether omega-3 fatty acids can improve insulin signalling and reduce risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes.
A study that examines participants who have type 2 diabetes to determine the heart health benefits of curcumin and/or fish oil capsule supplementation, over and above their usual medications and management.
A similar study for those with pre-diabetes that examines whether the participant’s risk of developing the disease has been minimised with the curcumin and/or fish oil capsule supplementation, over and above their usual medications and management.
A trial involving expectant mothers and gestational diabetes which occurs in 10% of pregnancies. Professor Garg stated that, “expectant mothers will receive omega 3 supplementation to improve the quality of fatty tissue gained during pregnancy”.

The only outcome that these expensive nutraceuticals will deliver is an increase in corporate profits. For many people, the concept of changing diet and lifestyle is such a big challenge that they prefer to seek an easier but ineffective solution.

Agricultural, food and retail companies have merged into large transnational corporations. The challenge for these corporations is how to continue to make profits when the market for food is saturated in developed countries. In the United States, the food supply contains 15.9 MJoule (3800 calories) for every adult and child in the United States which is nearly twice what is needed. ²

Food industry is constantly attempting to increase demand. Use of industry-funded research to supply misinformation, to create conflicting evidence where none exists and hiding negative data are part of the tactics used to ensure a continued expansion of their markets.

Companies address this by:

encouraging the consumption of very high energy-dense foods through relentless advertising and ubiquity of outlets
increasing serving size and adding price inducements to order the larger sizes
opening up markets in transitional and developing countries

Jamie Brownlee of Carleton University, Ottaay, Toronto, Canada authored a 30 page paper in 2015 paper, The Corporate Corruption of Academic Research. ³

In Canada, and elsewhere, universities are becoming increasingly corporatized. This paper explores one aspect of the corporatization process: how university research has been transformed. I provide a detailed analysis of how corporate influence has corrupted academic research, from the selection of research topics, to research secrecy, through to how conflicts of interest and research bias influence the collection and release of information.

As part of my analysis, I include an in-depth case study of biomedical research and academic medicine to show how the corporatization of higher education has led to systematic research bias and compromised the values that have historically defined scientific research. For universities and the medical profession, corporatization has produced a crisis of credibility in the published literature and tarnished the academy as a source of disinterested knowledge.

For the public, the consequences run much deeper. I conclude by locating the corruption of academic research in the fundamental antagonism between corporate and academic institutions.

Given the way that universities are forced to fund research by forming partnerships with industry, by necessity, research and the subsequent dissemination of information is driven by making a profit.

Convincing society of the need to fundamentally change what we eat is difficult and unprofitable.

Dr Michael Brown, winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize for Medicine, stated: ⁴

We do not need a new discovery. The problem has been switched from one of science to one of social policy and human behavior. And it turns out to be a lot easier to do the science than to change people’s behavior.

Walter Willet, the famed Harvard epidemiologist and former director of the Nurses’ Study stated in a New York Times interview: ⁵

If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

Eric Rimm, another researcher from the Harvard School of Public Health, stated: ⁶

But avoiding it [trans-fats] if at all possible is ideal. We can’t tell people to stop eating all meat and all dairy products. Well, we could tell people to become vegetarians. If we were truly basing this only on science, we would, but it is a bit extreme.

The Ovarian Cancer Australia website states:

It is not clear whether diet or alcohol affects the risk of developing ovarian cancer.

Really! The small sample of papers listed above, indicates very clearly that diet and alcohol have a significant impact on all forms of sex-hormone related cancers. Check out Ruth Heidrich’s transformation (available from my Home Page) by changing what she ate – no compromise.

As the I Ching (1000-750 BCE) states:

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that contains none.

No amount of money or research is going to find a solution that already exists – WHY?

Because society is looking in the wrong place.

Over the past several decades, our health indicators have become progressively worse. The prevalence of many cancers have continued to rise. The mortality rate for all cases of cancer has risen for females. It has decreased for males because of the reduction in lung cancer. ⁷

Breast cancer, a sex-hormone related cancer with a high prevalence rate, continues to rise.

Pancreatic cancer, has a lower prevalence rate but has a high mortality rate, continues to rise unabated.

Whilst a substantial reduction in cervical cancer occurred between 1992-2002, there has been NO reduction in the following two decades.

The CEO of the Ovarian Cancer Australia dismissed my comprehensive and validated documentation with the comment that “Our information regarding ovarian cancer risks and symptoms is based on guidance from Cancer Australia and reflects the current evidence base available throughour national cancer authority” ⁸

In 2006-2011, $1.77 billion in funding was provided for cancer research in Australia. ⁹

Despite all the donor dollars and research, ¹⁰

During 2011–2015, an average of 714 new cases of cancer were diagnosed annually among children aged 0–14—a rate of 16 per 100,000 children.

The most common cancer groups were leukaemia, cancer of the central nervous system (including the brain) and lymphoma.

The rates for 2011–2015 for children aged 0–14 (16.3 per 100,000) were slightly higher than for 2006–2010 (15.1 per 100,000).

While rates increased for all age groups, the largest increase was for children aged 5–9 (10.3 cases per 100,000 in 2006–2010 to 12.3 cases per 100,000 in 2011–2015).

That is, cancer rates for children aged 5-9, increased 19% for the five year period from the 2006-2010 to 2011-2015.

The good news is that for the same period, for children aged 0-14, cancer rates only increased 8%.

Why are the corporate donors for Cancer Council Australia not available for public scrutiny?

Why is all the education and research adminisistred by Cancer Council Australia not having the desired imact?

As our fridge magnet from Zig Ziglar states, “The greatest form of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” – although it is far worse than that.

Organisations are fleecing billions of dollars in donations without achieving significant results, supposedly to obtain information that has been known for millenia. Consider the writings of Plato, Sotion of Alexandria, Plutarch, Richard Wiseman (Sergeant-Surgeon to King Charles II), Dr. Walter Hayle Walche (1812-1892), Dr.William Lambe (1765–1847), Professor Russell Henry Chittenden (1856–1943) and Frederick Hoffman (1865-1946).
Historical Advocates of Plant Based Diets

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Footnotes

Astrup, A. et al. (2019) WHO draft guidelines on dietary saturated and trans fatty acids: time for a new approach? BMJ. 366 (14137), 1–6.
Moodle, R. et al. (2013) Profits and pandemics: prevention of harmful effects of tobacco, alcohol, and ultra-processed food and drink industries. The Lancet. 381 (9867), 670–679.
Brownlee, J. (2015) The Corporate Corruption of Academic Research. Alternate routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research. 26 (1), 1–30.
Brown, M. S. (Director). (2006, June 2). Academy of Achievement 2006—Michael Brown [Video recording]. Academy of Achievement 2006.
Kolata, G. (1990) Animal Fat is Tied to Colon Cancer – New York Times. [online]. Available from: http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/13/us/animal-fat-is-tied-to-colon-cancer.html (Accessed 28 January 2017).
Fox, M. (2002) Trans-fat increase cholesterol levels. Available from: http://jawawa.id/index.php/newsitem/trans-fat-increase-cholesterol-levels-1447893297 (Accessed 29 March 2017).
Anon (n.d.) Cancer data in Australia, Data – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [online]. (Accessed 22 May 2021).
Email: Sheil, D. (2026) Ovarian Cancer Australia – 15 July 2026 at 1035.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2022) Australia’s children [online]. Available from: https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/children-youth/australias-children/contents/health/cancer-incidence-survival.
Anon (n.d.) Cancer data in Australia, Data – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [online]. (Accessed 22 May 2021).

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