All Fall Down

Posted on Monday, May 16 at 16:31 by Milton
And pretty soon, the groups start taking the line of the big corporations.
  • Case in point: the American Diabetes Association (ADA).

    Earlier this month, the ADA cut a deal with candy and soda pop maker Cadbury Schweppes.

    Here's the deal -- Cadbury Schweppes kicks in a couple million dollars to the ADA.

    In return, the company gets to use the ADA label on its diet drinks -- plus the positive publicity generated by the deal.

    Cadbury makes Dr. Pepper and such nutritious treats as Cadbury's Cream Egg.

    You would have to have your head buried deeply in the sand to deny that sugar-filled soda is fueling childhood obesity -- which in turn in is fueling type 2 diabetes.

    Read the rest of All Fall Down here.

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    1. by hoopoe
      Tue May 17, 2005 5:13 am
      Sounds like the ADA has been co-opted by industry the same way the FDA in the US was.



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