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"Big Sugar controls national nutritional guidelines The sugar industry has been able to influence the top decision makers at the US DA to the point that the new dietary guidelines for the Food Guide Pyramid have been modified to benefit the sugar industry. The sugar lobby had so much sway with the US DA that the advice to minimize excess sugar consumption completely disappeared, even though this message would have helped prevent diabetes and obesity, which are now epidemics in the United States and other developed countries." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Incidentally, the sugar industry, in their fight against the WHO conclusion, has relied heavily7 on the FNB report with its 25% limit. In other words, the FNB committee produces a friendly recommendation for the sugar industry which then turns around and uses this finding to support its claim against the WHO report. THE INFLUENCE OF INDUSTRY This discussion still leaves unanswered the question of how industry develops such extraordinary influence." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Food companies, such as the sugar industry, often subsidize university nutrition departments the way drug companies support medical schools. (See Appendices A and B.) Look at the food served to hospital patients! One friend of mine who considered becoming a nutritionist remarked, "I don't want to go to school only to prescribe Jell-O to hospital patients." As for the news media, newspapers and television have mostly treated the raw food movement as an eccentric fad or oddity rather than the real solution to many of our physical, mental and societal problems that it actually is." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The corporate behemoths in the sugar industry were hell-bent on its demise. Everybody else wanted a piece of the action. LifeSavers was conducting miraculin tests. Warner-Lambert, which manufactured Dentyne, Chiclets and Trident had developed a miracle-fruit chewing gum. Miralin was approached with eight-figure deals. And then it all turned to dust. Just as miraculin was about to become widely available, a number of mysterious events took place. "Things started to get very weird," says Harvey." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "He says this is one of the few places on the mainland that I'll be able to taste it: after being perceived as a threat to the sugar industry, commercial production of the fruit was banned by the Food and Drug Administration in the 1960s. Nearby is a thorny cactus covered in dragon fruits. A little farther down the path is a fruit that he describes as a pet project: the keppel. Initially discovered at the deserted Water Palace of Indonesia, an erstwhile harem, the keppel was once used as an aphrodisiac by the sultans and their odalisques." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"However, in the United States and Canada, probably due in large part to concerns raised by the sugar industry about potential competition, to date, stevia is approved only as a food supplement. It is available at most healthfood stores. ANTIBIOTIC ALTERNATIVES Colloidal Silver A colloid consists of minute particles that float within a liquid despite the pull of gravity; they remain suspended. Cloudy liquids such as fruit juice and milk are colloidal examples of water with macromolecules in suspension." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The Sugar Industry's Extraordinary Access to Government In her provocative book, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, Dr. Marion Nestle cites the "most stunning example" of access to upper echelons of the U.S. government, which is revealed in "of all unexpected places, the Starr Report." This official document, which, of course, recounts former President Clinton's dalliance with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, proves that on the afternoon of President's Day holiday, Monday, February 19, 1996, President Clinton "told [Ms." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "She also uncovered that the larger the PAC contribution, the more likely our elected officials were to support sugar industry positions. In addition, Dr. Nestle reports, "Month-by-month analyses of the history of legislation on sugar and peanut subsidies demonstrate an increase in contributions to both parties just prior to votes." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "The recommendations kowtow to the sugar industry by not taking a stronger stance on sugar," adds Lee Gross, M.D. "They don't provide a recommended daily cap on sugar consumption," adds the director of diabetes and nutrition education for Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, Florida. Critics also claim that the new dietary recommendations don't go far enough when it comes to whole grains. "The new guidelines still imply that eating half of your grain products in a refined form is okay, when this is not optimal," says Dr. Walter Willett. " - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Did the sugar industry succeed in controlling the U.S.-based FNB report but fail with the WHO/FAO report? What does this say about the FNB scientists who also devised the new protein recommendation? These wildly different estimates are not a matter of scientific interpretation. This is nothing more than naked political muscle. Professor James and his colleagues at the WHO stood up to the pressure; the FNB group appears to have caved in. The U.S. panel received funding from the M&M Mars candy company and a consortium of soft drink companies. Is it possible that the U.S." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Here's an example, parents were concerned that their children were eating too much sugar, causing hyperactivity, learning disabilities, and behavioral problems. The sugar industry was concerned that kids would be eating less sugar, thus cutting into their profits. (Remember the role of the food companies in all this from our discussion at the beginning of the chapter.) The sugar industry associations indirectly funded a study, which was to prove that sugar consumption had no effect on hyperactivity or learning abilities. They got the study with the results they wanted." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"That the sugar industry complained so loudly was certainly a good sign. Yet, part of the advice is simply to choose beverages with "little added sugars"—still pretty fuzzy language. Keeping the wording as vague as possible is good for big business. Is it any wonder that so many people are still confused about how to eat? MyPyramid, Our Problem Four months later, in April 2005, the federal government revealed its much-anticipated revision of the "Food Guide Pyramid"—that peculiar icon of nutrition advice that adorns cereal boxes and not much else." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"The USDA also has cover-ups and denials about mad cow disease, fraudulent testing results of mad cow disease, massive caving in to the financial interests of industries like the sugar industry and a denial of the harmful effects of food preservatives like sodium nitrite and MSG. Gatekeepers of scientific "truth" These institutions ?the FDA, the USDA, med schools and scientific journals ?" - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"But let's face it, this global strategy would have been much more powerful, effective, and appropriate if it had included the four points outlined above. The Sugar Industry's Efforts to Influence WHO'S Work to Combat Obesity We can shed more light on sugar politics, thanks to the British publication The Observer, which uncovered an internal 2004 document written by the British head of the sugar-industry-funded World Sugar Research Organization." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The USDA's information is pretty much written by the sugar industry and the grain industry. Why do you think the U.S. Food Guide Pyramid recommends people eat nine servings of grains a day? Because the grain industry wrote the guidelines! Why do you think it doesn't say you should limit your consumption of red meat? Because the dietary guidelines were written in part by the beef industry! The facts about nutrition were well known in the 80s, when former surgeon general C. Everett Koop issued a milestone report in 1988 that established and presented the connections between red meat and cancer." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"The sugar industry — sometimes called "Big Sugar" — continues to receive millions of dollars each year in corporate welfare from taxpayers as it produces refined white sugar. As a result, this makes sugar cheaper than it should be in the marketplace — which makes foods made with sugar artificially cheap as well. In a sense, this becomes a pivotal issue for people at lower incomes, because when they are at grocery stores looking for ways to feed themselves and their families, they are of course looking for lower cost food items." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"World Health Organization to its knees" unless it abandoned these guidelines on added sugar. WHO people were describing the threat "as tantamount to blackmail and worse than any pressure exerted by the tobacco industry."7 The U.S.-based group even publicly threatened to lobby the U.S. Congress to reduce the $406 million U.S. funding of the WHO if it persisted in keeping the upper limit so low at 10%! There were reports, after a letter was sent by the industry to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, that the Bush administration was inclined to side with the sugar industry." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.) "In other words, the FNB committee produces a friendly recommendation for the sugar industry which then turns around and uses this finding to support its claim against the WHO report. THE INFLUENCE OF INDUSTRY This discussion still leaves unanswered the question of how industry develops such extraordinary influence. Mostly, industry develops consultancies with a few publicly visible figures in academia, who then take leadership in policy positions outside of academia. However, these industry consultants continue to wear their academic hats." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"If you do not] cease making misleading or false statements regarding sugar or the sugar industry . . . the only recourse available to us will be to legally defend our industry and its members against any and all fallacious and harmful allegations. Oh my. I am not a litigious person and this letter was most disturbing, not least because the Sugar Association seemed to interpret the word "sugar" in a most unusual way. The ingredient list of a can of Coca-Cola Classic, for example, says that it contains high fructose corn syrup and/or sucrose." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "A USDA official told me that it just wasn't worth taking on the sugar industry to fight about one word. The difference between "limit" and "moderate" may be semantic and not matter much, but this example —and the legal challenge sent to me ?illustrate the absurd lengths to which this industry will go to protect sales of cane, beet, and corn sugars. In many ways, the 2005 sugar guideline is an even better example." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "Because most lobbying goes on behind the scenes, it ordinarily takes deep investigation to attribute such changes to industry interference, but the sugar industry does not bother to hide what it does. Evolution of the U.S. Dietary Guideline for Sugar, 1980 to 2005 YEAR SUGAR GUIDELINE NUMBER OF WORDS 1980 Avoid too much sugar 4 1985 Avoid too much sugar 4 1990 Use sugars only in moderation 5 !" - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "On a federal holiday, said the report, a Florida sugar producer (whose companies just happened to have contributed more than $1 million to the election campaigns of both Democrat and Republican parties) had no trouble getting a telephone call through to President Bill Clinton while he was otherwise occupied with the White House intern Monica Lewinsky. sugar industry contributions to political parties and election campaign funds help to explain why federal dietary advice about sugar intake is such a sensitive topic." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, we have skyrocketing rates of obesity and diabetes, and a multibillion-dollar sugar industry being subsidized by taxpayer dollars. How crazy can it get? Apparently it can get even crazier, because there's no sign that any of this is reversing, and the only defense you have against this is to educate yourself. That is your number one defense against brain spam. While you're doing that, be careful of where you get your information. If you get your information from any government agency, you can bet the information is highly distorted, and has been shaped and influenced by lobbyists." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"Urban sprawl and the sugar industry have already greatly altered the coastal plains around Trujillo and Chiclayo. Climatic change and deforestation are threatening the mountain forest systems that are the source of many medicinal species. Most importantly, the high Andean ecosystems and sacred lagoons where many medicinally active species are found are in danger of being destroyed by large-scale mining activities [112, 113]." - Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon, Plants of the four winds - The magic and medicinal flora of Peru (Get the book.)

"Remember the role of the food companies in all this from our discussion at the beginning of the chapter.) The sugar industry associations indirectly funded a study, which was to prove that sugar consumption had no effect on hyperactivity or learning abilities. They got the study with the results they wanted. In a national newspaper, the headline read: "Sugar Has No Effect on Hyperactivity or Learning and Behavioral Problems in Children." The article stated that a study was conducted with two groups of children. The first group was given a "controlled diet." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"For example, in the United States, the Big sugar industry strenuously denies any link between the consumption of refined sugars and diseases like diabetes or obesity. Through political influence, they managed to get the Bush administration to actually block an initiative by the World Health Organization that would have recommended that people all over the world limit their intake of refined sugars. Over the years, there have been some rather energized debates over the Food Guide Pyramid published by the USDA." - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.) "The sugar industry, it seems, managed to get any such recommendations removed from the guidelines. Wthout question, there's a tremendous amount of political pressure at work here. The ADA, like any other national group, is heavily influenced by food companies. As a quick example of what I'm talking about, in Tucson, Arizona, an annual "Run for the Cure for Diabetes" event was sponsored by both the ADA and, believe it or not, Coca-Cola!" - Mike Adams, Grocery Warning: How to recognize and avoid the groceries that cause cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and other common diseases (Get the book.)

"Prophet's death in 632 sugar cane and sugar production had been introduced from Persia and were established in Syria, Palestine, the Dodecanese, Egypt, Cyprus, Crete, Sicily, North Africa, and southern Spain. The sugar industry survived the gradual expulsion of the Moors from the Mediterranean littoral, and was carried on by both Moslems and Christians as a profitable, expanding concern for two hundred years from about 1300." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) "By 1432, the first sugar cane had been pulped and refined in a plant near the modern Funchal, the Europeans having destroyed most of the island's woodland by accident and most of the natives by design. This sugar industry ultimately gave way to the more profitable vineyards. The sugar estates were worked initially by more than a thousand men, brought in in conditions of some servitude from Portugal itself; the group included convicts, debtors, and stubborn Jews who refused to be converted to Christianity." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) "In doing so they extinguished most of the Mediterranean sugar industry since, unlike their fellow Moslems, the Arabs, whom they replaced, the Turks were not great traders and held the infidel in fierce, isolationist religious contempt. Sugar prices rose steeply after 1570, more than quadrupling, measured in real terms, in the last thirty years of the sixteenth century." - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

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