NYT Must Read: Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

A must read article at the NYT, Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies.

For 40 years, the sugar industry's priority has been to shed doubt on studies suggesting that its product makes people sick... [I]n more than 1,500 pages of internal memos, letters, and company board reports we discovered buried in the archives of now-defunct sugar companies as well as in the recently released papers of deceased researchers and consultants who played key roles in the industry's strategy. They show how Big Sugar used Big Tobacco-style tactics to ensure that government agencies would dismiss troubling health claims against their products.

This is a long article, but is valuable both to see how the sugar industry has been protecting itself by confusing the science, as well as for the links in the articles they cite.  An excellent source of information and related articles.  Find some time to sit down and read through it.  It is pretty eye opening in places.  Be sure to click through to related links as well.