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 Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:55 pm Post subject: Campaign against sugared drinks |
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The Center for Science in the Public Interest is waging a campaign against sugar drinks. This is part of an e-mail the CSPI sent out on February 13, 2013:
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There’s no getting around it: The heavy concentrations of high-fructose corn syrup in Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and other sugar drinks cause obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
The American Heart Association recommends a limit of about 8 teaspoons of added sugars per day.
A 20-ounce bottle of soda has about twice that amount.
In other words, sugar drinks are unsafe as currently formulated and consumed.
Today the Center for Science in the Public Interest is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to determine a safe level for high-fructose corn syrup and other sugars in soda and other sugar drinks. And to require the industry to achieve that level over several years.
Needless to say, our proposal will be controversial.
But it is time to trigger a nationwide conversation about sugar drinks’ role in obesity, diabetes, and heart disease in the United States. Sugar drinks are the single biggest source of calories in the American diet. Liquid calories are more conducive to weight gain than the calories in solid food. And the level of high-fructose corn syrup and other sugars in soda is unsafe and is literally making us sick. It’s time for industry to reformulate their harmful products.
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