Researchers Discover a Crazy-Simple Way for Kids to Fight Obesity, and It's Not About Eating Less

A new study shows that making water fountains more available in schools can help children keep the pounds off...
http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/researchers-discover-crazy-simple-way-kids-fight-obesity-and-its-not-about-eating

Soda Scandal: Journalists Fail to Reveal Sources Funded by Coca-Cola

Why did so many reporters and news outlets fail to disclose the conflicts of interests of two prominent professors?
http://www.alternet.org/food/soda-scandal-journalists-fail-reveal-sources-funded-coca-cola

There's a new Big Tobacco — and one industry is determined to silence its critics

On Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced that Americans should eat and drink no more than 50 grams of sugar — roughly the amount in a can and a half of Coke — each day...
http://www.businessinsider.com/big-soda-is-fighting-science-on-sugar-2015-11

Marion Nestle: “Soda Politics: Taking On Big Soda (And Winning)” (Diane Rehm Show)

Soda companies acknowledge that there is an obesity epidemic. Coca-cola and other beverage companies say they are doing their part to help to help solve the problem by funding research on health. But nutrition experts say these industry-funded researchers are erroneously saying exercise, not diet, is the key to maintaining a healthy weight. Health expert Marion Nestle says this industry funding blurs the line between philanthropy and marketing. In a new book, she argues that sugary-beverage companies are using a number of tactics to deflect criticism and mislead consumers.
Interview:
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-10-08/marion-nestle-soda-politics-taking-on-big-soda-and-winning

The Youngest Case Of Type 2 Diabetes Ever Recorded Highlights An ‘Emerging Epidemic’

Six months of exercise and a healthy diet did the trick. ... Read more

New diabetes research garners staggering numbers Americans

A new study reveals that half of Americans are at diabetic risk and that a vast number of people don't know they have it.
https://youtu.be/yBAvIjGQn3I

This brutally honest American commercial

Meet Jim—the character in our Rewind the Future video—he is a man whose life flashes right before his very eyes, unhealthy habits and all. The choices you teach your child today become the habits they take into their adulthood.
https://youtu.be/xUmp67YDlHY

How Coca Cola's Obesity PR Stunt Blew Up in the Company's Face

The soft drink industry is in crisis.
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Coca-Cola-Funded Scientists Say Overweight Americans Are Too Worried About What They Are Eating

Coke wants you to exercise more and keep drinking soda. ... Read more

No More Hidden Sugar: FDA Proposes New Label Rule

The Food and Drug Administration wants to make it easier for Americans to track how much added sugars we're getting in the foods and beverages we choose.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/24/425908798/no-more-hidden-sugar-fda-proposes-new-label-rule

What Has Free Trade Done for Mexico? Create an Obesity and Diabetes Epidemic

Junk food companies seeking growth markets are flooding poor countries with cheap, unhealthy food. ...  Read more

Is Your Memory Shaky? Might Not Be Your Age, But All That Sugar Ruining Your Liver

A quarter of the U.S. population suffers from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease caused by dietary sugar.
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Sugar Companies Have Downplayed The Evidence About Tooth Decay For Decades

A new study confirms that Big Sugar has been influencing public policy since the 1950s.  ... Read more

The case for treating sugar like a dangerous drug

Robert Lustig is a medical expert at the University of California, San Francisco, who has written extensively about the major health problems attribut...  Read more

Sugary Drinks Linked With Earlier Menstruation In Girls

Girls who drink a lot of soda and other sugary drinks may get their first menstru...  Read more

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Sugar

Sugar. It's in everything!
Is it good for us? Well, the sugar industry thinks so.

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The Latest Scientific Evidence Should Be the Death Blow to Artificial Sweeteners

Messing with the microbes in your digestive process is not the way to go.

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Soda Companies, Artificial Sweeteners And The Fight Against Obesity (Diane Rehm Show)

It seems we are finally making headway in the fight against obesity. The Centers for Disease Control announced this week that rates of diabetes in the U.S. may be leveling off. Researchers credit the good news in part to a plateau in obesity rates. In other news, the top three soda makers pledged to cut beverage calories in the American diet by one-fifth over the next decade. But consumers turning to diet soda to decrease those calories should consider this: A new study in the journal “Nature” suggests artificial sweeteners may interfere with the way our bodies process sugar. Diane and her guests discuss the latest news in the fight against obesity.
 

Interview:

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-09-25/soda-companies-artificial-sweeteners-and-fight-against-obesity

 

 

5 Surprising Reasons to Finally Give Up Soda

For one thing, it'll make you age faster.

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9 Shocking Facts You Need to Know About Sugar

Sugar is sickening and killing us. Why can't we stop?

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