So why are conflicts of interest allowed to persist in nutrition research? One root cause is the need for funding. Right now nutrition science is relatively underfunded by government, leaving lots of space for food companies and industry groups to step in and sponsor research. “If you look at the amount of funding available from the [National Institutes for Health], there’s been a contraction of inflation-adjusted dollars available for research over the last decade,” says Jason Block, a physician and researcher at Harvard Medical School.

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by Julia Belluz, Vox.

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