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Pseudoscience and Globesity
Flawed Strategy: Restrict Sugars and Energy-Dense Foods to Prevent Obesity
Maureen Storey, PhD, Richard A. Forshee, Ph.D. and John A. Knubel,
M.A. of the Center for Food and Nutrition Policy (CFNP) at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, a
nonprofit organization whose "mission is to advance rational, science-based food and nutrition
policy," commenting on the draft report said: "many of the policy recommendations were not
supported by the scientific review that noted equivocal or disparate results in the links
between dietary components and obesity."4 They noted that the WHO report supported claims of
possible causes of obesity on aggregate level data, but such data suffers from the well-known
statistical phenomenon called the ecological fallacy. For example, while the population as a
whole is eating fast food more and gaining weight, the people eating out and the people gaining
weight may not be the same people
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Maureen L. Storey, Ph.D., Director, Center for Food and Nutrition Policy, Virginia Polytechnic and
State University, Alexandria, VA. Senior Vice President of Health and Nutrition Marketing at Hayes,
Domenici & Associates, a public relations and marketing firm in McLean, Virginia. Former executive
with the Kellogg Company...[holding] several management positions in nutrition over a 10-year
period." (ceresnet.orgViewEntry.cfmOpen ↗) Co-author of study on
added sugars in children's diets funded by The Sugar Association, Inc. (J. Am. Coll. Nutr. 2000;20(1):32-
43). Lead investigator in a study concerning childhood obesity and soft drink intake funded by the
National Soft Drink Association.
(nsda.orgConsumption43.htmlOpen ↗; accessed 9/5/03)
Member of the expert advisory board for the American Council for Fitness and Nutrition.
(acfn.orgadvisory.htmlOpen ↗; accessed 10/31/03)
Richard A. Forshee, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, Center for Food and Nutrition Policy,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Alexandria, VA. Co-author of study on added
sugars in children's diets funded by The Sugar Association, Inc. (J. Am. Coll. Nutr. 2000;20(1):32-
43) Co-author of study concerning childhood obesity and soft-drink intake funded by the National
Soft Drink Association.
(nsda.orgConsumption43.htmlOpen ↗; accessed 9/5/03)
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