Marion Nestle, a professor of
nutrition, food studies and public health
at New York
University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a
major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»
«Walter Willett, a physician and chairman of the department of
nutrition at Harvard
University's School of Public Health, calls the committee report «egregious,» saying it excludes
at least six
major studies linking dairy consumption to prostate cancer.