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Good news, fellow families: the soda industry will spend “whatever it takes” to protect us from a tax on our favorite bottled sugar delivery systems. So that we won’t have to pony up an extra penny per ounce on nondiet sodas, energy drinks and artificial juices, companies like Coke and Pepsi will pour as much cash as they can muster into lobbying and advertising efforts in the District of Columbia–the latest place to consider such a tax, which the industry has already defeated in New York and Philadelphia.
It’s tough to imagine any better use for those funds, now that we’ve defeated obesity and provided a healthy lunch for all school kids–and especially since we’re all so in need of cheap extra calories. Who could possibly argue with the industry’s opposition to a tax that might reduce the gallon of sweetened beverages the average American drinks every week?
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A six-figure deal between the Coca-Cola company and the American Academy of Family Physicians has patients and some doctors in an uproar.
The AP reports the soft drink (and water and juice, etc.) company has paid a sum in the six-figure range to fund a portion of the AAFP’s patient resource site, FamilyDoctor.org. Continue reading »
Ask a pediatrician why childhood obesity is a problem, and they point one finger directly toward soda. It’s just one cause of many, but soft drinks are public enemy number one as far as legislators are concerned.
The CDC has been debating the efficacy of obesity taxes on them for quite some time. So how much sugar is really IN those soft drinks? Continue reading »
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