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Source: https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/08/disney-nutrition-colorado-journal/

Disney decided to make healthier side dishes the default for kids' meals at Disney World restaurants, only serving fries or soda if parents specifically requested them for their children. In order to see if this had any effect, they hired a researcher named James Hill to study how kids changed what they ate at Disney World, as well as what nutritional impact their new eating habits had. Part of their agreement was that Hill would publish his results as a scientific paper.

Disney stayed out of the way and let Hill do his thing, and the results were mostly positive. Kids were still consuming a lot of sugar, but in other respects their nutritional intake was significantly healthier. They were all set to publish when a scandal broke out over Hill's other work, research funded by Coca-Cola that argued that lack of exercise, not diet, was the primary culprit behind obesity. To put it bluntly, researchers considered Hill's research total bullshit to make Coca-Cola look better, and Hill himself an industry shill.

Disney panicked. If Hill was a hack, then people might assume they'd paid him for positive results, tarnishing their reputation. They did everything they could to convince both Hill and the journal to retract the article, and wound up getting permission to rewrite the press release themselves and try to do some damage control.

As it turns out, it's really bad form to fund a study and then try to pull it once it's finished, and even worse to write the press release (which should be written by the researchers themselves.) Now scientists are angry at Disney for trying to "suppress science." You win some, you lose some, eh?

"lack of exercise, not diet, was the primary culprit behind obesity"

Sweet, sweet vindication.

did you read the rest of the article?

that study was funded by coca-cola and hill's a shill

it's bullshit

Ah You're right.

My bad.

I misread and misunderstood which one of those was the "right" finding.

I feel like it's both diet AND exercise, but for children, I do think the equation tilts slightly more towards lack of exercise as the culprit, as they seem to have a much higher metabolism while growing.

Maybe they should have researched their researcher better?

Hard to say. Maybe they reviewed his work with Coca-Cola and had no reason to believe he was shady until the scandal.

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