While many people are currently aware of the links between the pharmaceutical industry and state agencies responsible for public health or of the conflicts of interest that link physicians and researchers involved in both sectors, fewer are aware of the enormous influence of the food industry. Food or beverage manufacturers have a huge impact in the health policy of our states and on the nutritional claims disseminated to the public.
Marion Nestle, a dedicated public health advocate, served for 15 years as chair of the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University.
These various books cover 20 years of experience compromising and influencing in the field of public health. She says that anyone who wants to regulate their weight or save their blood sugar must stop drinking industrial and sugary drinks. Excessively rich in calories, totally devoid of nutrients (contrary to the advertising arguments that make us believe the opposite), sodas and other sweetened drinks have no beneficial impact on health. These beverages are only negative and they don't belong in our bodies!
According to this magistrate, eliminating industrial sweets and sodas from daily life would undoubtedly be the best thing and the essential step to take to curb the current obesity epidemic.
Large corporations such as Coca-Cola are firmly convinced that their stock market quotations and profits are directly linked to official health claims. Thus, as soon as their numbers drop, they blame the public authorities and their recommendations to reduce sugar consumption in an attempt to reduce the health risks associated with obesity.
In "Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning)," Marion Nestle explains how staffers working in some public health agencies were paid by the big multinational soda companies to promote their sales.
These same industrialists go so far as to pay people to create false petitions or airplane pilots to fly over cities with banners that were in the direction of reducing soda consumption. This was all set up to give themselves a clear conscience and make the public believe that these companies care about public health. However, as soon as measures such as banning the sale of sweetened beverages in restaurants, movie theaters, sports complexes or any other public place are proposed, discussed and ready to be voted on by health committees, the industrialists "water" some decision-makers copiously to make them change their minds and finally block the decisions and laws.
Marion Nestlé states that one cannot imagine the colossal amounts of money and means that these types of industries use to keep their products selling while pretending that they are concerned about our health.
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