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> There seems to be yet another revision in what's supposed to be good nutrition. During the '80s
> and '90s the accepted line was that fat is bad, non-sugar carbohydrates are good. That didn't make
> meat producers happy.
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> Now it seems to be shifting to fat is ok, carbohydrates are bad.
>
> The latter view has some prominent research behind it, and apparently it's having a negative
> effect on the corporate profits of some carbo food producers.
>
> How much of this nutrition stuff is real, and how much is brought on by paid-for agenda
> "research"?
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Thanks
In the 70's, during the severe recession, the US govt cut back its support of scientific research.
Industry stepped in. Today 70% of all research in the US is funded by industry.
These are corporate sponsors listed on the American Diabetes Association website. I wonder how this
might impact the research programs that they fund and the positions they take regarding the cause of
diabetes and other nutritional matters?
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The highest level of recognition in the Corporate Recognition Program is called the Banting Circle
Elite. The designation is named for Frederick Banting, the physician who co-discovered insulin. The
annual total support for companies reaching this elite level is $750,000. The second level, Banting
Circle, the third level, Platinum and the fourth level Diamond, each support the Associati $100,000,
annually. Other sponsor levels include Gold ($50,000), Silver ($25,000) and Bronze ($15,000).
The Banting Circle Elite Abbott Laboratories Aventis Pharmaceuticals BD Consumer Healthcare
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Eli Lilly and Company GlaxoSmithKline Lifescan, Inc., a Johnson &
Johnson company Medtronic MiniMed Merck & Co., Inc. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation Novo
Nordisk Pharmaceuticals Pfizer Inc Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc.
Banting Circle Abbott Laboratories, Inc., MediSense Products Bayer Corporation Kraft Foods Roche
Diagnostics Corporation
Platinum Abbott Laboratories, Ross Product Division (Glucerna) AstraZeneca Dermik Laboratories, Inc.
J.M. Smucker Company Merisant U.S., Inc. (Equal Sweetener) Olivio Premium Products Tenet Healthcare
Foundation TheraSense, Inc. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
Diamond Archway Cookies, LLC Coolbrands International, Inc. (Eskimo Pie)
CVS/pharmacy Ebony Magazine Equidyne Systems, Inc. General Mills, Inc. (Fiber One) Good Neighbor
Pharmacy Health Care Products Health Magazine Hermundslie Foundation KOS Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
MBNA Murray Sugar Free Cookies Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. Orhto-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.
People Weekly Magazine Rite Aid Pharmacy Roche Pharmaceuticals Roundy's Inc. Schering Plough
Healthcare Products, Inc. Specialty Brands of America (Cary's Sugar Free Cookies) The Procter &
Gamble Company Voortman Cookies Limited Yahoo!
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Corporate sponsors of the American Heart Association.
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and foundations for lifetime giving of $1,000,000 and above Archer Daniels Midland Company –
Illinois AstraZeneca LP – Pennsylvania Aventis Pharmaceuticals – Pennsylvania Averitt
Express Associate Charities – Tennessee Bayer Corporation – New Jersey Bristol-Myers
Squibb Company – New Jersey The Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation – New
York Citi – Delaware GlaxoSmithKline – Pennsylvania Guidant Corporation – Indiana
Guidant Foundation – Indiana Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn – New York The J. Willard and
Alice S. Marriott Foundation – District of Columbia Carlos and Marguerite Mason Trust –
Georgia Medicine Shoppe International, Inc. – Missouri Mercedes-Benz, USA, LLC – New
Jersey Merck & Co., Inc. – Pennsylvania Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. – New Jersey
Omron Healthcare, Inc. – Illinois Pfizer, Inc. – New York Procter & Gamble Company
– Ohio Random House, Inc. – New York Sanofi-Synthelabo – New York Schering-Plough
Corporation – New Jersey Subway – Connecticut Takeda Pharmaceuticals – Illinois
United Way of Southeastern PA – Pennsylvania Walgreen Co. – Illinois The Harry and
Jeanette Weinberg Foundation – Hawaii Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals – Pennsylvania
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Corporate sponsors of the American Dietetic Association Foundation.
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December 2002
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SPECIAL THANKS TO ADA FOUNDATION FNCE EVENT SPONSORS You can read all about the Foundation events
and fundraising activities at this year’s conference in Philadelphia in the attached cover
letter. The ADA Foundation would like to extend a special thank you to those sponsors who made the
events possible.
Healthy Weight for Kid’s Symposia HealtheTech Mead Johnson Nutritionals National Dairy Council
The Peanut Institute
Art of Giving Gala ConAgra Foods Food Marketing Institute Hormel HealthLabs Kraft Foods McNeill
Nutritionals National Cattleman’s Beef Association Ross Products Division, Abbott Laboratories
Congratulations to ADA Foundation Corporate Award Recipient, Mead Johnson Nutritionals
The Philadelphia Challenge 5K Run and Fitness Walk Baxter -- PULSE Hormel Health Labs
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