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Stephen Cook: This is part of a series of investigative reports Canada’s CBC TV journalist Kelly Crowe undertook in March. It chronicles what happened when dentist Cristin Couzens decided to do some ‘drilling’ into the sugar industry, beginning in 2007. What she found was not sweet at all.  In fact, when you realise sugar is in just about everything we buy these days, it’s as alarming as the lies the tobacco industry told the world. Thanks to sage and several of our wonderful readers for alerting us to this  mainstream coverage of yet another important truth.

Sugar Industry’s Secret Documents Echo Tobacco Tactics

By Kelly Crowe, CBC News –  March 8, 2013

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/03/08/f-vp-crowe-big-sugar.html

When Cristin Couzens went on the hunt for evidence that Big Sugar had manipulated public opinion, she had no idea what she was doing. She was a dentist, not an investigative reporter. But she couldn’t let go of the nagging suspicion that something was amiss.

Her obsession started in an unlikely place, at a dental conference in Seattle in 2007 about diabetes and gum disease. When one speaker listed foods to avoid, there was no mention of sugar. “I thought this was very strange,” Couzens said.

And when a second speaker suggested sugary drinks were a healthy choice, she chased him down at the end of the conference to make sure she’d heard him correctly. “How could you possibly recommend sweet tea as a healthy drink?” she asked the speaker, who paused just long enough to say, “There is no evidence that links sugar to chronic disease,” before he bolted out the door.

To read the rest of this story, visit: http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/04/big-sugar-sweet-big-lies/