Gary Taubes’ sugar takedown continued in the NYTimes SundayReview, including reference to the late Fred Stare, founder of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health. In the 1970s Stare was reportedly paid to exonerate sugar in journal supplement, “Sugar in the Diet of Man,”
STATNews refers to the case of another Harvard doctor, this one who found himself on the wrong side of a supplement maker.
The jury trial had momentous implications for the future of research into the safety of weight-loss and muscle-building pills; for the freedom of academics to speak out about matters of public health; and for our ability to learn what’s in the supplements on our kitchen counters.
Boston Health News 