Harvard Scientist Paid To Lie About Sugar Health Risks
51 years ago, a bribe and a lie involving Harvard scientists Drs. Frederick Stare and Mark Hegsted led to one of the worst scandals ever in human nutrition... and you're still paying for it with your health to this day.
A shocking revelation made the front page of the New York Times just days ago...! The story announced a new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) - one if the most prestigious medical journals in the country.
The report contains proof that sugar companies bribed leading doctors to lie to you... to tell you sugar was safe when they knew it wasn't.
In 1965, in fact, the Sugar Association paid two Harvard scientists $6,500 to twist the facts surrounding sugar.
They wanted to blame fat for the health problems sugar seemed to be causing. Why? So they could keep selling you more sugar.
They succeeded, and it led directly to the chronic disease and obesity epidemics we're facing today. These epidemics have claimed the health and lives of billions of people.
In this article, I'll show you how deep this rabbit hole goes... and you'll learn some things you won't find in the New York Times article. Read on...
How they got away with selling poison...
Starting in the early 1950s, evidence began to appear that eating sugar might cause heart disease.
So, the sugar industry formed the sugar Associate. It was the Association's job to keep the public image of sugar squeaky clean.
The Association sought out scientists who were trying to prove that fat was the major health threat, not sugar They gave funding to these scientists to try to push their research ahead of anti-sugar research.
One of these scientists was Ancel Keys, author of the Seven Countries Study and father of the low-fat diet craze.
(You might remember this name from my blog "Saturated With Lies: The Truth about Fat" - which I published back in April.)
Ancel Keys received sugar industry funding for many years at his lab in Minnesota.
However, by 1962, the Sugar Association was getting worried . Maybe payrolling scientists wasn't enought!
The evidence against sugar was growing too fast.
So, John Hickson - the Sugar Association's vice president - started tracking down all the research that wasn't friendly toward sugar.
In December 1964, Hickson reported back with bad news...
Multiple scientists - including John Yudkin, Europe's leading nutritionist - had found major evidence that sugar caused both heart disease and diabetes.
(You may remember that name, John Yudkin, from another blog I wrote and published here in May, "Sweetened To Death: Exposing Sugar for What it Is.")
In order to silence all this damaging anti-sugar research, Hickson made a proposal:
The Sugar Association would fund pro-sugar research of their own... at the highest academic level: Harvard University.
Several months later, they secured their inside man: Frederick Stare, founder and chair of the Harvard School of Public Health.
Dirty Lvy League Secrets.
Dr. Frederick Stare was the perfect man for the job... because he'd already been taking money from the sugar industry for years.
In fact, just 5 years earlier, Dr. Stare wanted to build a new building for his department at Harvard. So, General Foods - a major sugar industry player - threw in $1 million ($8.1 million in today's money) to get the project done.
So, in 1965, with this influential Lvy League "yes man" on board... the Sugar Association Launched "Project 226."
