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AP Exclusive: How Candy Makers
Shape Nutrition Science
June 2, 2016
ABC News
by Candice Choi, Associated Press
Food Safety,
Health Issues

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It was a startling scientific finding: Children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those
who don't.
Less startling was how it came about. The paper, it turns out, was funded by a trade
association representing the makers of Butterfingers, Hershey and Skittles. And its findings
were touted by the group even though one of its authors didn't seem to think much of it.
"We're hoping they can do something with it — it's thin and clearly padded," a professor of
nutrition at Louisiana State University wrote to her co-author in early 2011, with an
abstract for the paper attached.
The paper nevertheless served the interests of the candy industry — and that's not
unusual. The comment was found in thousands of pages of emails obtained by The Associated

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