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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens | Mother Jones | November 1, 2012

How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? Read More »

Document Dive: What's Inside The Sugar Industry's Filing Cabinets?

Maya Dusenberg | Mother Jones | October 31, 2012

Internal papers reveal a strategy to safeguard sugar from "opportunists," "pseudoscientists," and "enemies." Read More »

New Evidence That Sugar Is Harming Our Hearts

Alice G. Walton | Forbes | February 3, 2014

If the torrent of studies suggesting that sugar is bad for our health wasn’t quite enough, new research again suggests that added dietary sugar increases the risk of death from heart disease. Read More »

Sugar Industry's Secret Documents Echo Tobacco Tactics

Kelly Crowe | CBC News | March 8, 2013

When Cristin Couzens went on the hunt for evidence that Big Sugar had manipulated public opinion, she had no idea what she was doing. She was a dentist, not an investigative reporter. But she couldn't let go of the nagging suspicion that something was amiss. Read More »

Sugar: Killing Us Sweetly. Staggering Health Consequences Of Sugar On Health of Americans

Gary Null | Global Research | February 3, 2014

In September 2013, a bombshell report from Credit Suisse’s Research Institute brought into sharp focus the staggering health consequences of sugar on the health of Americans. The group revealed that approximately “30%–40% of healthcare expenditures in the USA go to help address issues that are closely tied to the excess consumption of sugar.” [...] Read More »

Tax 'Toxic' Sugar, Doctors Urge

Staff Writer | CBC News | February 1, 2014

Sugar is so toxic that it should be taxed and slapped with regulations like alcohol, some U.S. researchers argue. Read More »

The Extraordinary Science Of Addictive Junk Food

Michael Moss | New York Times | February 20, 2013

On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food companies. [...] Rivals any other day, the C.E.O.’s and company presidents had come together for a rare, private meeting. On the agenda was one item: the emerging obesity epidemic and how to deal with it... Read More »