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CDC, Coca-Cola, sugary drinks, and obesity
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Michael D. Shaw -- Expert in Health Care and Environmental Affairs Michael D. Shaw -- Expert in Health Care and Environmental Affairs
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Dateline: Washington, DC
Saturday, February 2, 2019

 

This HND piece examines the connection between sugary drinks and the obesity epidemic, while putting things in a historical context. Simply put, diets in the 1950s were high in what we would today call "junk food," yet, almost no one was fat. Of course, there was no body positivity movement either, and fat people were shamed.

We then segue into the matter of "collusion" between the Coca-Cola Company and the CDC, as demonstrated via e-mails, secured using the Freedom of Information Act—in a recently published study. However, the authors of the study come off a bit unhinged, as we explain.

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