Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies

How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill?

—By Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns Couzens  |November/December 2012 Issue

On a brisk spring Tuesday in 1976, a pair of executives from the Sugar Association stepped up to the podium of a Chicago ballroom to accept the Oscar of the public relations world, the Silver Anvil award for excellence in “the forging of public opinion.”