[2012] Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies. How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill? By Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens   On federal panels, industry-funded scientists cited industry-funded studies to dismiss sugar as a culprit…. Big Sugar found a reliable advocate in Frederick Stare, whose department at Harvard was bankrolled by the likes of Kellogg, Kraft, and Coca-Cola…. Leading the panel that evaluated sugar for the FDA: George Irving, a former chair of the scientific advisory board for the International Sugar Research Foundation, an industry group….. The sugar review panel cited five reports to contradict the notion that sugar consumption leads to diabetes—all had industry ties…. By 1999, the average American would be eating more than double the amount of sugar the FDA had deemed safe in 1986…. "The science is in," Lustig says. But the industry is going to fight tooth and nail to prevent that science from translating into public policy."

[2016 April] The sugar conspiracy  “If only a small fraction of what we know about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive,” wrote Yudkin, “that material would promptly be banned.” The book did well, but Yudkin paid a high price for it. Prominent nutritionists combined with the food industry to destroy his reputation, and his career never recovered. He died, in 1995, a disappointed, largely forgotten man.

[2015 March] How Sugar Kills The Secrets of Sugar is a Canadian documentary about the conspiracy by the sugar industry and processed food companies to conceal the damaging effects of sugar on human health. For decades, the medical establishment has led us to believe that our intake of animal fat is responsible for soaring rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. It turns out the real culprit all along is sugar (see The Big Fat Surprise).  Investigators have uncovered industry documents going back to the 1950s linking excess sugar intake with health problems. In 1972, researcher John Yudkin published the book Pure, White and Deadly about research linking sugar to heart disease. The response by the food industry was a vicious campaign to portray Yudkin as an incompetent quack. This, in turn, led to a thirty-year shutdown of institutional funding for research into sugar’s health effects.