Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Earlier this year, the Bush administration took an extraordinary step to defend the interests of U.S. sugar producers and the packaged-food industry, both of which count top executives among the president's biggest fundraisers. Chris Mooney reports that in January the Department of Health and Human Services sent a letter to the World Health Organization objecting to the scientific findings underlying WHO's effort to issue anti-obesity guidelines -- most notably a dietary recommendation to limit consumption of sugar. The industry associations say the WHO's global strategy fails to recognize that personal lifestyle choices are as much a cause of obesity as diet. Not coincidentally, the HHS letter to WHO raises exactly those objections. With obesity closing in on tobacco as the nation's leading cause of preventable death, sugar producers and the packaged-food industry have a big economic stake and liability risk in the outcome of this debate. But with a number of Bush "Rangers" and "Pioneers" among their executives, the groups are clearly well positioned to make their views known to the president and his top advisers. http://ga3.org/ct/h7apfUK1MjGy/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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