Wed, Aug-25-04, 10:59
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Senior Member
Posts: 550
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Plan: atkins
Stats: 125/106/100
BF:
Progress: 76%
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Quote:
"We prefer this way to the way it was in previous guidelines," said Cheryl Digges, the director of public policy for the Sugar Association, a trade and lobbying organization for beet and cane sugar growers. "We think there is too much emphasis on sugars. Sugars are just a part of the diet."
"There is no negative health impact for sugar; there never has been," she said. "Every major scientific review found no link between added sugar and any lifestyle disease, including obesity."
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The vast amount of money spend on this type of study to counter the powerful industry lobbist could have been spent on research are more useful and interesting.
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