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American Diabetes Society Has Been Bought Off By Junk Food &

Soft Drink Lobby

 

 

 

 

After Sweet Industry Gift, Am. Diabetes Assn. Claims Sugar Has Nothing

to Do With Diabetes

 

 

 

American Diabetes Society Has Been Bought Off By Junk Food & Soft

Drink Lobby

 

http://www.organicconsumers.org/school/diabetes051705.cfm

 

Commercial Alert < http://www.commercialalert.org

 

PRESS RELEASE MAY 16, 2005

 

CONTACT: Commercial Alert: Gary Ruskin, 503-235-8012

 

After Sweet Industry Gift, Am. Diabetes Assn. Claims Sugar Has Nothing

to Do With Diabetes

 

 

 

WASHINGTON -- May 16 -- After the American Diabetes Association

received a large gift from major manufacturer of sugar-sweetened

beverages, its top medical official is claiming that sugar has nothing

to do with diabetes. In an interview published in today¹s Corporate

Crime Reporter, Richard Kahn, the chief scientific and medical officer

with the American Diabetes Association said " What is the evidence that

sugar itself has anything to do with diabetes? There is no evidence, "

On April 21, the ADA announced a " three-year, multi-million dollar

alliance " with Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages, which produces

sweetened soft drinks that are implicated in the epidemic of obesity

and diabetes in the United States. Its parent company is Cadbury

Schweppes, which is the third largest soft-drink manufacturer in the

world, after Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. " Saying that sugar has nothing to

do with diabetes is like saying that tobacco has nothing to do with

emphysema, " said Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert.

" The American Diabetes Association has been so corrupted that they

have sunk to the mentality of tobacco scientists' who denied the link

between tobacco and lung cancer. " Incredibly, when Kahn was asked

whether sugary drinks have anything to do with diabetes, he responded

" No one has a clue of whether they do or don't. " There is ample

evidence linking diets high in sugar, and sugary drinks, with obesity.

For example, a study in the Lancet, titled " Relation Between

Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Drinks and Childhood Obesity: a

Prospective, Observational Analysis " found that the likelihood of

obesity in children " increased 1.6 times for each additional can of

sugar-sweetened drink that they consumed every day. "

 

 

 

Today's Corporate Crime Reporter interview is posted at:

http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/diabetes051605.htm More

information about the American Diabetes Association-Cadbury Schweppes

" alliance " is available at:

http://biz./prnews/050421/dcth002.html?.v=7 Commercial Alert

is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep the commercial

culture within its proper sphere, and to prevent it from exploiting

children and subverting the higher values of family, community,

environmental integrity and democracy. For more information, see our

website at: http://www.commercialalert.org.

 

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