How The Sugar Industry Lied About Heart Disease, UCSF Reveals

Internal documents from the 1960s show a Harvard coronary heart disease study was probably skewed, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine Monday.

The report by researchers at University of California, San Francisco, reveals the Sugar Research Foundation sweetened research in its favor — to blame fats, instead of sugars, for high rates of coronary heart disease.

In the 1960s, physiologist John Yudkin said added sugars were to blame for the upward trend in heart disease.

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