This link: UCSF Study will take you to an article titled:

UCSF reveals how sugar industry influenced national conversation on heart disease written by Elizabeth Fernandez , UC San Francisco Monday, September 12, 2016

The article opens with the following:

A newly discovered cache of industry documents revealed that the sugar industry began working closely with nutrition scientists in the mid-1960s to single out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary heart disease and to downplay evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor.

An analysis of those papers by researchers at UC San Francisco appears Sept. 12 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The article then continues to show how the media attention to the heart disease risks of sucrose consumption was buried and derailed by a Harvard "literature review" debunking any connection between sugar and heart disease and asserting that reducing cholesterol and saturated fat were the only dietary changes needed to prevent coronary heart disease. That literature review was, of course, bought and paid for big sugar.

To conduct the literature review, the sugar industry paid the Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars, then set the review's objective, contributed articles to be included, and received drafts. Yet the industry's funding and role were not disclosed in the final NEJM publication.

There is more in the article about the influence of big sugar, and the effect on health policy. It is a short, but very worthwhile read telling us something that, if we had been asked, we'd have guessed, but having it documented is so much better than guessing or assuming. The call (by Big Sugar) for the literature review debunking it came at a time when sugar was under scrutiny as a probably medical problem. Such scrutiny was thereby forestalled, but is rearing its head yet again lately, and the denial is already flowing. Expect more well funded exculpatory studies and reviews.