Nutrition Research from Respiration and Vitamins to Cholesterol and Atherosclerosis

Stare, Fredrick J.

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“…Amstar also had a leadership role in ISRF [66] and was a founding member of another food industry trade group the Nutrition Foundation (NF) [67]. A key member of Amstar’s FNAC was Fredrick Stare, [68] chairman of Harvard’s Department of Nutrition, who already had a history of advising ISRF (beginning in 1965 when it was known as the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF)), [69] and had connections to NF [70]. Stare had advised SRF on research projects that questioned the effectiveness of artificial sweeteners [71] and had been the senior author of a sugar industry-commissioned review published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1967 [72, 73] that accentuated the uncertainty of emerging evidence linking coronary heart disease to sucrose while overstating the certainty of the evidence linking CHD to consuming saturated fat [74].…”

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In defense of sugar: a critical analysis of rhetorical strategies used in The Sugar Association’s award-winning 1976 public relations campaign

2019

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Background: In 1976, the U.S. Sugar Association (SA), a globally networked trade organization representing the cane and beet sugar industry, won the Public Relations Society of America's (PRSA) Silver Anvil Award for a crisis communication campaign. Their campaign successfully limited the diffusion of sugar restriction policies to control obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and dental caries, and marked the beginning of the modern-day SA. The sugar industry continues to resist measures to reduce sugar consumption, therefore understanding and addressing industry opposition is crucial to achieving global targets to reduce non-communicable disease. Methods: We critically analyze common crisis management rhetorical strategies used by SA to defend itself from perceived wrongdoing, and sugar from perceptions of harm using a thematic content analysis based on Hearit's Corporate Apologia theory. Data sources were internal SA documents related to the 1976 Silver Anvil Award in 1) PRSA records, 2) Great Western Sugar Company records, and 3) William Jefferson Darby Papers. Results: SA, using prototypical apologia stances (counterattack, differentiation, apology, and corrective action) and rhetorical dissociation strategies (appearance/reality, opinion/knowledge, and act/essence) constructed a persuasive narrative to successfully defend sugar from a product safety crisis, and the sugar industry from a social legitimacy crisis. SA's overarching narrative was that restricting sugar, which it claimed was a valuable food that makes healthy foods more palatable, would cause harm and that claims to the contrary were made by opportunists, pseudoscientists, food-faddists, lay nutritionists or those who had been misled by them. SA's apologia does not meet criteria for truthfulness or sincerity. Conclusion: Corporate apologia theory provides an accessible way of understanding sugar industry crisis communication strategies. It enables public health actors to recognize and predict industry corporate apologia in response to ongoing product safety and social legitimacy challenges. Industry counterarguments can be examined for truthfulness and sincerity (or the lack thereof), and explained to policymakers considering sugar restriction policies, and to the public, thereby decreasing the effectiveness of illegitimate industry communication efforts to oppose regulation and legislation.

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2019

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On the Making of a Clinical Nutritionist

Olson

1996

Annu. Rev. Nutr.

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Clinical nutrition may be defined as the application of the principles of nutrition science and medical practice to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human disease caused by the deficiency, excess, or metabolic imbalance of nutrients. At present, many physicans do not appreciate the great traditions established by their forebears in this field (Hippocrates, Lind, Eijkman, Glisson, Casal, Livingstone, Hopkins, and Goldberger). They have tended to avoid nutritional problems, plead ignorance of nutrition principles, and delegate the nutritional care of their patients to paramedical personnel. Only by changing this situation can members of the medical profession offer adequate care to their patients. In this chapter, I have attempted to present the duties and responsibilities of a clinical nutritionist in an academic environment. A well-trained academician in such a position can improve the education of medical students in nutrition, attract well-motivated graduates into nutrition training programs, and establish clinical nutrition as a bona fide subspecialty of medicine.

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From Chick Nutrition to Nutrition Policy

Hegsted

2000

Annu. Rev. Nutr.

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Nutrition Research from Respiration and Vitamins to Cholesterol and Atherosclerosis

Cited by 4 publications

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In defense of sugar: a critical analysis of rhetorical strategies used in The Sugar Association’s award-winning 1976 public relations campaign

In defense of sugar: a critical analysis of rhetorical strategies used in The Sugar Association’s award-winning 1976 public relations campaign

On the Making of a Clinical Nutritionist

From Chick Nutrition to Nutrition Policy

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