This report will provide the insight you need into understanding the specific implications of money making commercial industries and how they impact our lives (and deaths) and the health of our children and ourselves. It isnt a long report and well worth the time spent. The “sugar controversy” has its roots in an expert consultation held in early 2002 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on diet, nutrition, and physical activity for the prevention of chronic disease. This consultation produced a report (Technical Report Series No. 916, or TRS 916) that focused on the dietary and physical activity determinants of major chronic diseases and established the scientific basis for pre- vention of these conditions (WHO/FAO 2003). As part of the response to the global epidemics of diabetes and obesity (“diabesity”)—major threats to the lives and well-being of populations across the globe—TRS 916 recommended limiting the popula- tion’s mean intake of added sugars to 10 percent or less of total energy (Nishida et al. 2004). Sugar producers and sugar-exporting countries raised immediate concerns about the consequences of this recommendation for future markets. The recom- mendation was challenged on the strength of the evidence, its scientific merit, and the assumptions made; the sugar recommendation became the focus of a debate between the nutrition community, the sugar industry, and agricultural policy experts. The two positions contrasted the potential health gains with the economic implications of limiting sugar consumption.
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