New report questions role of sugar vs. saturated fat in healthy diets

The recent discovery of documents that the sugar industry paid scientists to blame saturated fat for promoting heart disease appears to vindicate the findings of an independent author who found that eating meat, butter and cheese may not be completely to blame for human heart illness. The report released this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine publication suggests that the sugar industry manipulated information to shift more blame for heart disease away from sugar and more toward saturated fat intake. The Sugar Research Foundation paid three Harvard researchers who issued the 1967 report linking nutrition and heart health with ingestion of saturated fats in meat and dairy products rather than to sugar intake.