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"We prefer this way to the way it was in previous guidelines," said Cheryl Digges, the director of public policy for the Sugar Association, a trade and lobbying organization for beet and cane sugar growers. "We think there is too much emphasis on sugars. Sugars are just a part of the diet."

"There is no negative health impact for sugar; there never has been," she said. "Every major scientific review found no link between added sugar and any lifestyle disease, including obesity."

The vast amount of money spend on this type of

study to counter the powerful industry lobbist could have been spent on research are more useful and interesting.