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Article: Flour industry bread funds Atkins diet critic
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- August 17, 2003
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WHEN Dr Susan Jebb, one of Britain's leading nutrition experts,
condemned the hugely popular protein-based Atkins diet last week,
slimmers began putting bread, potatoes and pasta back on the menu.
But an investigation by Scotland on Sunday has discovered that
Jebb, head of nutrition and health research at Britain's Medical
Research Council (MRC), is working on a report into obesity funded by
the Flour Advisory Bureau (FAB).
The bureau is the lobbying and consumer arm of the National
Association of British and Irish Millers, and this is the second
report Jebb has written for it, following an earlier study into
obesity in Britain published in 1999. In total, the MRC has been paid
around GBP ...