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"Merck spent $160 million advertising Vioxx directly to the American people in 2000, much more than was required to keep most other household names in the public eye. pepsico, in contrast, only spent $125 million advertising Pepsi that same year. The drug money was well spent. Sales of Vioxx rose to $1.5 billion, 3.6 times what it had earned in 1999,7 and this can be taken as some indication of the enormous untapped demand for drugs that promise better quality pain relief - and therefore the reason why such promises should approximate to the truth." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Good-for-you products: How pepsico defines that subsection of its Smart Spot products that they say are "actively good for you," such as Tropicana orange juice or Quaker oatmeal. This is to distinguish from (and place on a higher plane than) the "better-for-you" products such as Diet Pepsi and Baked Lays. (See "better-for-you.") Government relations/affairs: Industry's euphemism for lobbying. A corporate executive with a tide such as "vice president, government relations" is probably a lobbyist. Halo effect: Forming an overall positive impression because of one good characteristic." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Fun-for-you products: Foods with no nutritional benefit, as described by companies like pepsico seeking to distinguish its other "better-for-you products." Of course, it wouldn't be so great for sales to call them "bad-for-you." Functional benefit: How food marketers like to describe certain unhealthy products, such as sports drinks, claiming they provide "energy" or "hydration." Good or bad foods: As in: "There are no good or bad foods; all foods can fit into a balanced diet." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "I was particularly incensed by this move because for several months prior, I had been part of a team of ten attorneys and public health groups who were in private negotiation with lawyers from the American Beverage Association, Coca-Cola, and pepsico. From these meetings—operating under the threat of litigation being planned in Massachusetts—we got close to an agreement that was oddly similar to the one announced with Bill Clinton. Apparently, Coke and Pepsi were shopping around for the best PR opportunity; it looks much better to have a former president at your side than a bunch of lawyers." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"All the major soda companies signed on—Coca-Cola, pepsico Inc., and Cadbury Schweppes (which sells Dr Pepper and Snapple), as well as the trade group, the American Beverage Association, which represents, as its website explains, "producers, marketers and distributors of virtually every nonalcoholic refreshment beverage you can name." Under the deal, some 35 million kids nationwide will be given healthier drink choices." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "The head of this last organization, whose members include the Coca Cola Company, pepsico, Kraft Foods, Cadbury Schweppes, the Snack Food Association, the American Beverage Association (formerly the National Soft Drink Association), and the Sugar Association, reportedly once stated that soda-and-candy-filled vending machines in schools don't play a role in the obesity crisis. "You can take every vending machine out of schools, and I don't believe you'd touch the obesity issue in children," Dr." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"In 2006, pepsico, the corporate parent of such companies as Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay, introduced Fuelosophy, a line of fruit-flavored smoothies geared to the health food market. Fuelosophy drinks have the same amount of sugars as an equal quantity of regular Pepsi but almost twice the calories. The calorie- and sugar-rich Frappucino beverages from Starbucks are nothing more than caffeinated dessert drinks. A Venti-size (20-ounce) Banana Coconut Frappucino with whipped cream packs 730 calories— about one half of a woman's daily caloric requirement—and a quarter-pound (119 grams) of sugars." - Jack Challem, Stop Prediabetes Now: The Ultimate Plan to Lose Weight and Prevent Diabetes (Get the book.)

"PepsiCo. "Community Information—Pepsi-Cola North America School Policy." http://www .pepsiworld.com/help/faqs/faq.php?category=community_info&page=school_partnership. Smucker's website. Simply Fruit nutritional information, http://www.smuckers.com/fg/pds/default.asp? groupid=l &catid=l 6. TARNIVAL. "What's in Cigarettes?" http://www.tarnival.org/cigarette/ingredients/sugar.html. World Health Organization Technical Report Series 916. "Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases: Report of a Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Interestingly, despite his virulent denunciation of meat eating and his apparent emphasis on whole food consumption, Ornish has no qualms about accepting handsome promotional and consulting fees from processed food manufacturers like McDonald's, pepsico and ConAgra Foods(ll). Nathan Pritikin Nathan Pritikin was a hugely influential low fat proponent during the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1957, Pritikin discovered he had a serious heart condition, but was told by his doctor that little could be done to improve his condition." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Obviously, "light" juices have less juice, and water is a cheap ingredient so production costs are lower; pepsico sold $25 million worth of these products in 2004. Premium Light Minute Maid (Coca-Cola) is made the same way. Both "light" products end up as 42 percent juice but supermarkets sell them right next to the 100 percent juices, and at the same price. This practice greatly upsets the Florida citrus trade associations that represent producers of 100 percent orange and grapefruit juices. These groups want diluted juices to disclose that fact prominently on front labels." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "In 2005, Coca-Cola introduced a new diet cola that it hoped would appeal to men —Coca-Cola Zero ("zero calories, zero carbs, zero sugar, zero color, and zero caffeine"), and pepsico introduced Sierra Mist Free. Both were sweetened with aspartame and acesulfame-K. Neither did well. The FDA says all nonnutritive sweeteners are safe at current levels of use, and they may well be, not least because they are used in extremely small amounts." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "On a smaller scale, Frito-Lay snacks brought in $9 billion for pepsico in 2003, just in North America. Do these expenditures influence preferences for such foods? If you do not respond to food marketing, you would be highly unusual; most people do." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) "In 2003, pepsico announced "Great News! America's favorite snacks have o grams Trans fats . . . That's right, America's favorite fun snacks have all of the great taste and crunch you've come to know and love with none of the Trans fats. . . zero, nada." The ad illustrated bags of Frito-Lay potato chips, Doritos, Tostitos, Fritos, Ruffles, and Cheetos, each with one of these words underneath: "zero, zip, zilch, nada, nil, none." Trans fats, you may recall from the margarine chapters, are the bad ones formed when vegetable oils are hydrogenated." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"Frito-Lay, now part of pepsico, sells its snack foods around the globe. Mars Incorporated, makers of M&M's, Twix, Milky Way, Snickers, Starburst, Skittles, and more, has an M&M's website with messages in Danish, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages.13 The most controversial piece of the food picture, however, is fast food. Being the leading purveyor, McDonald's draws both admiration and ire, and it does so around the world. A McDonald's in Moscow's Pushkin Square serves 40,000 people every day." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "Just two soft drink brands (Coca-Cola and pepsico) sell more than 70 percent of the carbonated beverages in the world, providing the majority of the fifty-two gallons of soft drinks consumed annually by the typical American. Ten to 15 percent of all calories consumed by America's teenage girls are from soft drinks.17 Attack Biology or the Environment? The mismatch between biology and the environment might be solved in several ways. Letting evolution catch up to the environment is one possibility, but this could require thousands of years. Fooling or overriding biology might be a solution." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.) "Coca-Cola and pepsico combined just for the United States.9 If you are a typical child, you will be introduced early to fast foods, snack foods, and soft drinks. Your tiny fingers might have grasped baby bottles bearing soft drink company logos.10 Television connects you with some of Madison Avenue's brightest minds, hence you may recognize Ronald McDonald before you can speak. You will like the silly rabbit, Fred and Barney, the leprechaun, the friendly captain, the clown, and the pitcher with a smiling face." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

"For example, The American Council on Science and Health, which bills itself as a nonprofit consumer education organization, has been funded, in large part, by pepsico, Coca-Cola, Dow, Exxon, and other corporations. Big food companies also fund the objective-sounding International Life Sciences Institute and the International Food Information Council." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"The Hidden Dehydration Epidemic While nutrition advocates are busy sounding alarm bells about diet-related threats to health such as obesity and diabetes, the marketers of "sports drinks" are trying to convince us that we (especially children) are imperiled by another malady altogether: severe dehydration." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Many of these soft drinks are owned by Coca-Cola or pepsico. A Blind Spot for Sports Drinks There are several examples of schools or even entire districts phasing out soft drinks but retaining sports drinks. This occurred with the Los Angeles Unified School District (discussed below). Sports drinks like Gatorade and Powerade do have fewer calories per ounce than traditional soft drinks. But they are generally in twenty-ounce bottles, while some soft drinks can be purchased in twelve-ounce cans." - Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, Food Fight (Get the book.)

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