Nutrition Researchers In Developing World Face Dilemma Of Whether To Collaborate With Big Food Industry.

reported that nutrition researchers in Malaysia, which is now “the fattest country in Asia, with nearly half the adult population now overweight or obese,” face the problem of a peer-review system in which multinational food corporations like Pepsi or Kellogg’s participate. This leads to the publication of studies such as the “one that concluded that children who drank malted breakfast beverages – a category dominated in Malaysia by Milo, a sugary powder drink made by Nestlé – were more likely to be physically active and spend less time in front of a computer or television.” The Times said that while the problem of industry influence on scientific research also exists in the West, in the developing world “government research funding is scarce and there is less resistance to the practice.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/health/obesity-malaysia-nestle.html