Conspiracies aren't real, are they?
The Sugar Research Foundation paid Harvard researchers $6,500 (2016 equivalent: $48,900) to write a literature review, published in 1967, that downplayed sugar's links to heart disease. One of the researchers went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture:
Back in the 1960s, a sugar industry executive wrote fat checks to a group of Harvard researchers so that they'd downplay the links between sugar and heart disease in a prominent medical journal—and the researchers did it, according to historical documents reported Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine [open, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5394].
One of those Harvard researchers went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where he set the stage for the federal government's current dietary guidelines. All in all, the corrupted researchers and skewed scientific literature successfully helped draw attention away from the health risks of sweets and shift the blame solely to fats—for nearly five decades. The low-fat, high-sugar diets that health experts subsequently encouraged are now seen as a main driver of the current obesity epidemic.
The bitter revelations come from archived documents from the Sugar Research Foundation (now the Sugar Association), dug up by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. Their dive into the old, sour affair highlights both the perils of trusting industry-sponsored research to inform policy and the importance of requiring scientists to disclose conflicts of interest—something that didn't become the norm until years later. Perhaps most strikingly, it spotlights the concerning power of the sugar industry.
See the accompanying editorial: Food Industry Funding of Nutrition Research: The Relevance of History for Current Debates (open, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5400) (DX)
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday September 14 2016, @03:06PM
the lemonade diet (emphasis mine):
According to www.themastercleanse.com [themastercleanse.com], one of the most comprehensive Master Cleanse websites, the lemonade drinks are made from fresh lemon or lime juice, genuine organic grade B maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and distilled or purified water. You can swap out the maple syrup for freshly squeezed sugar cane juice or molasses, but no other substitutions are allowed.
--https://web.archive.org/web/20130203015550/http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/master-cleanse-lemonade-diet/recipes [archive.org]
Many Eastern traditions make use of raw juice from cane grass stalks, because of its natural cleansing ability. Detox cleanses and the Master Cleanse are two ways to fast properly using natural ingredients.
--http://sugarcanejuice.org/fasting-html/ [sugarcanejuice.org]
"Juicing," the practice of consuming only fruit and vegetable juices, is a thing. Carrots, beets, most fruits, and of course sugar cane have a great deal of sugar in them.
http://www.justonjuice.com/7-day-juice-fast-plan/ [justonjuice.com]
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/juicing-health-risks-and-benefits [webmd.com]
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/03/22/do-juice-cleanses-work_n_1372305.html [huffingtonpost.ca]