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.
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)
- 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
