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| − | A UK industry-funded organisation set up to improve 'knowledge and understanding about the contributions of sugar and other carbohydrates to a healthy balanced diet'. It is funded principally by the sugar producers [[British Sugar]] and [[Tate & Lyle]]. Since 1990 it has financed nutrition research and produced leaflets and advertising campaigns designed to persuade academics, health professionals, teachers and schoolchildren of the health benefits of eating sugar. | + | A UK industry-funded organisation set up in 1964 to improve 'knowledge and understanding about the contributions of sugar and other carbohydrates to a healthy balanced diet'. It is funded principally by the sugar producers [[British Sugar]] and [[Tate & Lyle]]. Since 1990 it has financed nutrition research and produced leaflets and advertising campaigns designed to persuade academics, health professionals, teachers and schoolchildren of the health benefits of eating sugar. |
==People== | ==People== | ||
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| + | *Jane Cassidy [http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.d8315 OBSERVATIONS: Lobby Watch The Sugar Bureau] ''BMJ'' 2012; 344 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d8315 (Published 4 January 2012) | ||
| + | *John Yudkin '[[Attack is the best defence]]' Chapter 21 in ''Pure White and Deadly'' Penguin, 1988. | ||
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[[Category:Food Industry lobby groups]] | [[Category:Food Industry lobby groups]] | ||
Revision as of 09:44, 23 April 2013
A UK industry-funded organisation set up in 1964 to improve 'knowledge and understanding about the contributions of sugar and other carbohydrates to a healthy balanced diet'. It is funded principally by the sugar producers British Sugar and Tate & Lyle. Since 1990 it has financed nutrition research and produced leaflets and advertising campaigns designed to persuade academics, health professionals, teachers and schoolchildren of the health benefits of eating sugar.
Contents
People
- Richard Cottrell Director
- Hannah Theobald Consumer Communications Manager
- Alison Boyd Research Director
- Anna Wheeler Health Professionals Communication Manager
- Joanna Grinsted Information Manager
Affiliations
Resources
- Jane Cassidy OBSERVATIONS: Lobby Watch The Sugar Bureau BMJ 2012; 344 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d8315 (Published 4 January 2012)
- John Yudkin 'Attack is the best defence' Chapter 21 in Pure White and Deadly Penguin, 1988.
