News & Views - Date: January 2014

Information on Sugar Nutrition UK funded research

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Sugar Nutrition UK fund research on sugars and health by awarding grants to academic institutes and independent experts. These funding grants provide vital information to an important field of work, particularly in areas that require further evidence. All of our research grants are provided in an ‘unrestricted’ manner, which means that the work is entirely independent and without influence or input from the funder. These research awards include contractual obligations for the findings to be submitted to the peer-reviewed literature, irrespective of their outcome.

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Sugar Nutrition UK is an evidence-based association principally funded by UK sugar manufacturers and is involved in promoting nutrition research and raising awareness among academics, health professionals, the media and the public about sugars and their role in health.

Response to claims made in relation to launch of the group ‘Action on Sugar’

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This organisations claims are not supported by the consensus of scientific evidence. The international authority, the World Health Organisation, funded a review on sugar and obesity published last year which concluded that any link to body weight was due to overconsumption of calories and was not specific to sugars. It is simply not right to say that reducing the amount of sugar in foods will always result in a reduction of calories. In most cases the sugar will need to be replaced by another ingredient and the reformulated recipes can contain more calories than the original.

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