More evidence suggests that members of the sugar industry have suppressed US scientific research associating sugar consumption with heart disease and bladder cancer in mice.
The Sugar Research Foundation, the group that funded research, quickly completed research and did not publish the results. Science Alert notes that sugar is far more dangerous than fats for modern humans.
For decades, lobbyists in sugar-manufacturing companies have denied the link between sugar and cancer found in research. When a 2016 study revealed that mice with sugar-rich diets have developed breast cancer more rapidly, the Sugar Association (one of the largest lobby groups in the industry) said the results are "exaggerated". The group insisted that "there is no direct link between sugar intake and cancer."
Doctors and researchers claim that members of the sugar industry have deliberately kept details of the link between sugar and certain diseases. A new study published in the journal PLOS Biology reveals how the Sugar Association has suppressed the scientific findings of the terrible effects that sugar had on mice 50 years ago.
The report details the results of two unpublished studies, one named Project 256, funded by lobbyists in the field in 1960. Both presented the effects of feeding mice with sugar. The results of the study revealed that after the consumption of sugar, the risk of heart attacks, heartburn and blood triglycerides increased.
In a statement, the Sugar Association denied the allegations, saying the study was just a "speculation of 50 years ago, made by a group of researchers and funded by critics of the sugar industry." .
Last year, another report suggested that the Sugar Association paid three Harvard researchers in 1967 to conduct studies in which sugar does not seem so unhealthy and blame more on people's fats.
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