Children and Adolescents Who Eat Candy Are Less Overweight or Obese

[pdmjoker]

This page entitled "Before you read another health study, check who's funding the research":

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...ealth-nutrition-sugar-coca-cola-marion-nestle

says "New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle began informally tracking studies funded by food and beverage companies, as well as trade groups, in 2015. Her research uncovered 168 such studies in that year alone, and of those, 156 showed biased results that favored the sponsor’s interests"

“Researchers who take food industry funding do not believe that it affects their study design or interpretation and are outraged at the suggestion,” Nestle said. “Research, however, shows strong correlations between funding and research outcome.”

One of the six example studies was funded by the National Confectioners Association and reported as: New Study Shows Children and Adolescents Who Eat Candy Are Less Overweight or Obese. The actual study is here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21691462

Let's be careful out there!

 

[kitedoc]

These days researchers are supposed to name any conflicts of interest in relation to the research they are doing.
So either they are and that is being ignored by readers or they omit mention of the conflict or lie about it.
Guess who in recent years have vilified low carb diets and been involved in de-registration of health professionals who have promoted low carb diets? Dietitian's Association of Australia, sponsored by the food industry!!

 

[pdmjoker]

These days researchers are supposed to name any conflicts of interest in relation to the research they are doing.
So either they are and that is being ignored by readers or they omit mention of the conflict or lie about it.
Guess who in recent years have vilified low carb diets and been involved in de-registration of health professionals who have promoted low carb diets? Dietitian's Association of Australia, sponsored by the food industry!!

I'm not sure just declaring conflicts of interest is sufficient to avoid bias, as according to the professor: “Researchers who take food industry funding do not believe that it affects their study design or interpretation and are outraged at the suggestion.” “Research, however, shows strong correlations between funding and research outcome.”

Dr Jason Fung thinks that policy makers (like the Dietitian's Association of Australia, American Heart Association etc.) should not accept any industry funding, and I'm inclined to agree with him...

 

[kitedoc]

Thank you @pdmjoker. The more outraged there are the more biased they are! Perhaps studies need to be triple blind: to researchers and participants about who receives what treatment and to researchers about who sponsors them. In an ideal world of course !!

 

[pdmjoker]

Perhaps studies need to be triple blind: to researchers and participants about who receives what treatment and to researchers about who sponsors them. In an ideal world of course !!

I think that would indeed work!