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Blog Makes Big Soda Stop Paying Dietitians to Oppose Soda Taxes
When a single Medium blog post makes an 11-figure business back down, the world has changed. After we tweeted the Coca-Cola Transparency archive at them, the public health organization Ninjas for...
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ACSM-Coca-Cola Relationship Under Attack by New Research
A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine exposes Big Soda’s use of the American College of Sports Medicine and other organizations allegedly dedicated to public health. Authors Daniel...
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Hillary Clinton Campaign Officials Helped Coca-Cola Fight Soda Tax
Question: How close is the Hillary Clinton campaign to Coca-Cola? Answer: so close that a hack aimed at revealing Clinton campaign emails inadvertently discovered years’ worth of correspondence among...
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New Zealand Anti-Soda Logo Canned By Coca-Cola?
Coca-Cola is a common subject on this blog. We have previously documented Coke’s attempts to protect Big Sugar (BS) through their manipulation of the fitness industry by means of influencing health...
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The Obesity Society: Getting Fat on Big Soda’s Money?
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by our colleague Derek Fields. In not-so-unexpected news, partners of Coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper/Snapple and other food industry giants are still...
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Why Wearables and Workplace Wellness Haven’t Worked
Editor’s Note: We are pleased to present this guest post by Vik Khanna. Do you have a big brother? I don’t, and I don’t want one. And, I’m not talking about a sibling. I am talking about an...
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Big Soda’s Balance Calories Initiative: Rigged Marketing or Public Health...
Don’t listen to those pesky public health advocates talking about soda warning labels and soda taxes. Big Soda can solve the world’s chronic disease crisis on its own. Sure, its products and marketing...
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A Six Billion Dollar Welfare Queen: The American Beverage Association
“It’s not the government’s job to grocery shop for my family. It’s mine.” – actress on behalf of the American Beverage Association If that’s the case, why does the American Beverage Association lobby...
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Big Soda Co-Opts Michelle Obama’s Drink Up Campaign
Source. Will Michelle Obama leave a legacy of progress against chronic disease or of complicity in beverage industry propaganda? That question is now at stake as the American Beverage Association has...
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Follow Up: Michelle Obama Initiative Privately Admits It Partnered With ABA
Source. Yesterday we covered how a Michelle Obama initiative has partnered with the American Beverage Association. As we wrote yesterday, Partnership for a Healthier America is a non-profit...
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More Health Care, Less Health
The number of Americans with health insurance has greatly increased. And health care spending grew by 5.8% in 2015. Yet this growth in health care coverage and spending did not make Americans healthier...
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NY Times’ Lead Terrorism Reporter Uses Unreliable Google Translate
The reporter’s Twitter profile picture. Lead New York Times terrorism correspondent Rukmini Callimachi uses Google Translate to convert Arabic into English despite acknowledging the service is...
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Big Food vs. Tim Noakes: The Final Crusade
Dr. Tim Noakes. Tim Noakes’ Final Crusade An American may not be able to grasp what Tim Noakes means to South Africa since no equivalent to Professor Noakes exists in the U.S. In South Africa, Noakes...
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The Four Hallmarks of Big Soda (BS) Nutritional Propaganda
Each of these organizations has taken money from Coca-Cola. They also all promote views on nutrition and chronic disease that protect the soda industry. Coincidence? CrossFit’s approach to nutrition is...
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Expert Witness Against Noakes to Undergo Investigation for ILSI Ties
The former president of a soda proxy organization in South Africa will undergo an investigation concerning his ties to the sugar and soda industries. It is another episode in a chain of Coca-Cola /...
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ILSI Denies Infant Nutrition Efforts Despite Engaging In Them
On Feb. 6 we covered the latest “twist” in the Tim Noakes saga: South Africa’s Medical Research Council has disavowed its ties to expert witness Ali Dhansay’s testimony, closed his research unit, and...
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Susan Neely’s Alternative Dietary Guidelines
The American Beverage Association has responded to new Dietary Guidelines that limit sugar by spinning them into a recommendation for soft drinks. Yet this alleged suggestion is not present in the...
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Chris Christie and Coca-Cola Fight Obesity with Branded School Gyms
Gov. Chris Christie, then President of Coca-Cola Steve Cahillane and Body by Jake’s Jake Steinfeld. Source. We just unearthed this gem from 2013: Fitness guru Jake Steinfeld has been traveling the...
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Nutritionists Attempt to Censor Dissent, Protect Corporate Sponsors
Neva Cochran, candidate for president of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has attempted to censor exposure of the junk food funding behind a candidate for...
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Is the CrossFit Games Open all about Conditioning?
17.1 at CrossFit Pearl City. Source. The CrossFit Games Open is all about conditioning. It’s generally five metcons over five weeks and rarely, if ever, tests maximal strength or power. So if you want...
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