Before you read another health study, check who's funding the research

Food companies have a bad history of funding biased research to support their products. We took a look at a few egregious recent examples

Recently, evidence emerged that the sugar industry had paid scientists in the 1960s to implicate saturated fat, and not sugar, as a cause for heart disease. While the revelations are stunning, food industry funding of nutrition research is more common than consumers may realize.

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