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"They're pursuing several angles, including over-aggressive marketing, advertising aimed at children, unfair or deceptive marketing practices, soda companies' exclusive pouring rights contracts, and misleading and inaccurate labeling (such as advertising a product as "low fat" without stating that it's high in sugar and calories)." - 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.) "It's really a desperate attempt by soda companies to stay in the schools," says Commercial Alert's Ruskin, who found fault with the fact that the deal doesn't address advertising in schools—on Channel One, and on scoreboards and vending machines. Furthermore, both Ruskin and Michele Simon, founder of the Center for Informed Food Choices, worry that the plan has no enforcement mechanism, no oversight, and no accountability. "Is Bill Clinton going to run around to every school to make sure the policy gets implemented?" - 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.) "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.) "Previously, health advocates also were horrified by a dubious marketing tactic by soda companies to reach parents of nutrient-needy babies: they licensed their logos to a large manufacturer of baby bottles. "Infants and toddlers are four times likelier to be fed soda pop out of those bottles than out of regular baby bottles," fumed Dr. Michael Jacobson, CSPI's executive director. (As Linn and Jacobson now note, this much-criticized marketing approach was eventually phased out, we suspect because of pressure from groups such as the CCFC and the CSPI." - 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.)

"Exclusive contracting/pouring rights: When soda companies (mainly Coca-Cola and PepsiCo) form contracts with schools to have the right to sell only that company's products on school grounds. Often these deals last for many years, and can contain lucrative signing bonuses and incentives that result in promoting unhealthy beverages. Food nazi aka food police/cops: How some lobbyists like to refer to nutrition advocates who dare to call on the government to enact reasonable regulations." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Since the soda companies' first PR stunt didn't make their problems go away, Coke and Pepsi just came up with a better idea. But is Bill Clinton going to visit every school in the nation to ensure that this policy is implemented? In the meantime, the announcement might quell ongoing grassroots efforts, state legislation, and other, enforceable policies. Indeed, in several states where school nutrition bills were pending at the time of the announcement, the local AHA advocate was told that she could no longer support such legislation as a result of the deal forged at the national level." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "What a brilliant strategy by the soda companies, telling us they were bargaining in good faith, all the while planning another deal. Do we really need any more evidence that food and beverage companies cannot be trusted? The main purpose in bringing a lawsuit is to ensure that the companies are held accountable to the outcome, whether by court decision or settlement agreement." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "In May 2006, apparently recognizing that the 2005 press release hadn't quite done the trick, soda companies took a different tack. They announced a new and improved voluntary school policy, this time negotiated with the Clinton Foundation (the former president has made childhood obesity one of his post-presidency causes) and the American Heart Association (AHA).22 While the nutrition standards are marginally better, they still allow diet soda, sports drinks, and other unhealthy beverages in high schools." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"Sixty-percent of public schools across the nation have lucrative contracts with soda companies to dispense their products in school hallways. Mega-chain fast-food companies have similarly infiltrated many school cafeterias. That fast food is a major health-compromiser is a no-brainer in the minds of most. However, because the soft drink industry has been so successful in making their products so widely accepted and available for daily — often multiple times a day — consumption, soda is frequently not perceived to be the liquid candy and potential health hazard that it is." - 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.)

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