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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

Mother Jones by Gary Taubes, Cristin Kearns Couzens | Oct. 31, 2012 (Investigative Report)

Illustration: Chris Buzelli On a brisk spring Tuesday in 1976, a pair of executives from the Sugar Association stepped up to the podium of a Chicago ballroom to accept the Oscar of the public relations world, the Silver Anvil award for excellence in " the forging of public opinion. " The trade group had recently pulled off one of the greatest turnarounds in PR history. For nearly a decade, the sugar industry had been buffeted by crisis after crisis as the ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Pamela Hogle - Oct 31, 2012 - 10:39 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Dwight Rousu (review), Sirajul Islam (review), Raj Choudhary (review)
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Sirajul Islam
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 by Sirajul Islam - Nov. 1, 2012

Highly informative and detailed piece on sugar that most scientists say is harmful for our health except the sugar industry and their hired people. Really a good piece, which have many references and links, and the storywriters interviewed many experts/relevant people to write the story though they themselves are highly credible persons to write the piece as Gary Taubes is the author of a 2011 best-seller Why We Get Fat, and who has written for Discover, Science, and the New York Times Magazine. He is currently writing a book about sugar also. The second author is Cristin Kearns Couzens who took a two-year break from her career in dental health administration to pursue independent research on the sugar industry.

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Dwight Rousu
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Raj Choudhary
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 by Raj Choudhary - Nov. 1, 2012

its nice and giving good knowledge

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