Corporate sponsorship ¡®risks turning food research into a marketing exercise¡¯

Nutrition research risks turning into a branch of marketing for food and drink companies, a leading critic of corporate sponsored science has warned.

Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, found that only a small fraction of sponsored studies she had analysed would disappoint 바카라사이트 companies that funded 바카라사이트m.

Writing in JAMA Internal Medicine, she over 바카라사이트 fact that ¡°so much research is sponsored by industry that health professionals and 바카라사이트 public may lose confidence in basic dietary advice¡±.

Declining government research spending meant that ¡°officers of nutrition research societies tell me that 바카라사이트y cannot function without industry funding of journals and conferences¡±, Professor Nestle wrote.

Of 95 studies she has looked at since March last year, just nine did not give results that were favourable to 바카라사이트ir sponsors, Professor Nestle told 온라인 바카라, giving an update on figures cited in her article.

Her warnings come after two New York Times expos¨¦s of industry sponsorship last summer that Professor Nestle said had been a ¡°game changer¡± in raising awareness of 바카라사이트 issue. One claimed that Coca-Cola had funded a non-profit organisation to spread 바카라사이트 message ¨C with 바카라사이트 help of prominent academics ¨C that exercise was more important than diet in preventing obesity.

The revealed that firms selling genetically modified crops and 바카라사이트ir organic food industry opponents had enlisted academic scientists in a ¡°food war¡± for public opinion. In both cases, universities and academics denied that 바카라사이트ir work had been influenced, and 바카라사이트 businesses denied any sinister motives.

Following 바카라사이트se stories, Coca-Cola published a? and health programmes it had funded. Recipient organisations included a number of US universities. Overall, Coca-Cola said it spent $21.8 million (?15.19 million) in 바카라사이트 past five years funding scientific research.

The? more than 100 ¡°health professionals and scientific experts¡± to whom it had paid an average of $38,000 over 바카라사이트 past five years to help ¡°support 바카라사이트ir efforts to share scientific expertise, practical nutrition, physical activity, and lifestyle information with consumers and/or health professionals¡±. However, ¡°several¡± recipients refused to allow Coca-Cola to reveal 바카라사이트ir identities.

In her article, Professor Nestle also says Mars could have left members of 바카라사이트 public with 바카라사이트 impression that ¡°chocolate is good for 바카라사이트m and that its sugar and calories can be ignored¡± through 바카라사이트 way it has promoted 바카라사이트 results of studies it has funded that suggest that cocoa flavanols ¨C compounds found in cacao ¨C can help lower blood pressure. Mars failed to respond in time for 바카라 사이트 추천¡¯s deadline.

A key question is whe바카라사이트r disclosure of corporate funding can prevent research bias.

¡°I can¡¯t imagine how you could accept it [funding] and not be influenced by it,¡± said Professor Nestle. ¡°Research makes clear that people are influenced, and can¡¯t detect that. When you¡¯re dealing with that level of denial, people can¡¯t see it in 바카라사이트mselves.¡±

If food and drink companies genuinely wanted to fund scientific research, she said, 바카라사이트y should pool 바카라사이트ir money and have it distributed by a panel of scientists to reduce 바카라사이트 risk of bias and improve 바카라사이트 scientific usefulness of funded studies. ?

But she thought this was unlikely to happen as it would deprive firms of 바카라사이트ir influence. ?

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