The campaign was orchestrated by John Hickson, a top executive at the sugar association who later joined the tobacco industry. The new report on Tuesday revealed additional internal sugar industry documents from that era. The initial results, described in a 1969 internal industry report as “of particular interest,” raised a concern. “This is one of the first demonstrations of a biological difference between sucrose and starch fed rats,” the internal industry report stated. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Hickson left the sugar industry in the early 1970s to work for the Cigar Research Council, a tobacco industry organization.

Source: New York Times November 21, 2017 18:56 UTC