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What highly addictive food ingredient was secretly funded by the sugar industry in the 1960s to deflect blame?

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What highly addictive food ingredient was secretly funded by the sugar industry in the 1960s to deflect blame?

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What highly addictive food ingredient was secretly funded by the sugar industry in the 1960s to deflect blame?
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