Sugar Bureau
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'. The Bureau changed its name to Sugar Nutrition UK on 9 January 2012.[1]
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
- 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)
- Benjamin Mee Pure, white and no longer quite so deadly... Sugar, once thought of as second only to alcohol in the hate-stakes, is being rehabilitated. The Guardian, Tuesday 5 January 1999.
- John Yudkin 'Attack is the best defence' Chapter 21 in Pure White and Deadly Penguin, 1988.
Notes
- ↑ Sugar Nutrition UK NEWS & PRESS RELEASES: SUGAR NUTRITION UK – THE NEW NAME FOR THE SUGAR BUREAU January 2012