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REVEALED: Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research
September 12, 2016 12:47PM ET
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As nutrition debates raged in the 1960s, prominent Harvard nutritionists published two reviews in a top medical journal downplaying the role of sugar in coronary heart disease. Newly unearthed documents reveal what they didn't say: A sugar industry trade group initiated and paid for the studies, examined drafts, and laid out a clear objective to protect…