We conducted a systematic review of studies examining the association of industry sponsorship with the statistical significance of results, effect sizes, and
conclusions of nutrition research.
What this means is that instead of controlling for specific factors in a lab,
much of our nutrition research is simply based upon surveys and questionnaires sent out to the public.
Four
decades of nutrition research funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be invalid because the method used to collect the data was seriously flawed, according to a new study by the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.
Gregory Miller, vice
president of nutrition research at the National Dairy Council, dismisses the Physicians Committee as «essentially an animal rights organization.
That means the country is losing «its only independent institute in the
field of nutrition research, and a major Italian hub,» says Giuditta Perozzi, an INRAN scientist who's helping set up an international petition.
But as I discussed with my clients the horrific implications this had on our food guidelines, public health and the
perception of nutrition research, there was a theme that emerged from each conversation.
These milk proteins have also been linked to cancer and heart disease by The China Study, the biggest
piece of nutrition research ever undertaken.
Given the
limitations of nutrition research, and the absence of it in pregnant populations, some of the most useful dietary information was amassed and analyzed by a pioneering researcher / clinician named Weston A. Price.
Since 2003, Kevin Hall, PhD — a physicist turned metabolism researcher at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases — has been using data from dozens of controlled feeding studies conducted over
decades of nutrition research to build mathematical models of how different nutrients affect human metabolism and body weight.
The scrutiny of the funding practices of large transnational food companies6, 7 has threatened the credibility
of nutrition research and researchers.5 However, without empirical work examining the association of industry sponsorship with the results of nutrition research, researchers, policy makers, and the public have no way of quantifying and understanding the extent of industry influence on the data.
Food industry sponsorship
of nutrition research may bias research reports, systematic reviews, and dietary guidelines.