Sugar, Heart Disease and Cancer: An unsavory story of wealth versus health
7 min readApr 10, 2019
In 1965, the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) secretly funded a study by three Harvard scientists. It was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world. The review discounted a growing body of evidence linking sugar consumption to blood lipid levels that cause coronary heart disease. At the time…