Favorite 5 Articles from the January 2007 Newsletter
Note: this content originally appeared in our January 2007 newsletter. More up-to-date research may be available, but the message is still the same!
Favorite Five – My Favorite Articles from Recent Medical Journals
The Food Industry Buys Nutrition Research
Threatening Your Family’s Health
by Lenard I. Lesser in the open access journal PLOS Medicine concluded, Industry funding of nutrition-related scientific articles may bias conclusions in favor of sponsors’ products, with potentially significant implications for public health.” The main finding of this study is that scientific articles about commonly consumed beverages funded entirely by industry were approximately four to eight times more likely to be favorable to the financial interests of the sponsors than articles without industry-related funding. Of particular interest
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