Childhood Obesity News has been looking back at how things were several years ago, regarding the struggle between the government and the food industry. Dr. Pretlow reflected, at the time: Ideally, all food advertising directed at children should be ban …

Giant multinational corporations like Nestle and Coca-Cola decide what is in the food, how much of it to make available, and how much it will cost.

Some proponents are leveraging their support for the proposed sugar tax against assurances the the government will do more to curb obesity.

The sugar tax opponents in the U.K. will diplomatically concede that a sugar tax might work — if sugar were the sole cause of obesity — which, alas, it is not.

The UK is Europe’s third most obese nation, groaning under the expense of obesity-related illness. Will the long-awaited sugar tax change anything?

Coca-Cola uses bribery, intimidation and coercive campaigns to squash the rivals and those trying to reduce soda consumption in Central and South Americas.

Whenever the idea of taxing sugar-sweetened beverages to prevent obesity is discussed people react by asking for studies. Problem is, there aren’t many.

The connections between poverty and obesity are familiar territory. No government wants to deal with them, but a sugar tax brings at least partial satisfaction.

Coco-Cola’s response to requests for decreased sugar was to sell drinks with the same proportionate amount of it but in smaller units.

Is Pepsi competing with Coca-Cola to be the poster child for the Promote Child Obesity While Pretending to Care club?

An advocacy group called The Praxis Project is suing Coca-Cola for deceiving consumers about the negative health impact caused by its products.

Did you know some registered dietitians are financially rewarded by Coke and the American Beverage Association to hype products and ideas via social media?

Researchers accumulated information about how obesity in childhood and adolescence can set off a chain of consequences that will impact adult lives.

The question of the proposed sugar tax in the U.K. has been a bone of contention. Will it happen, or will it not?

Childhood Obesity News has been tracking the anti-sugar movement as it manifests in the United Kingdom.

The taxpayers can’t afford to pay for all the illness caused by all the obesity, yet the taxpayers keep on getting fat.

The beverage industry should stop spending so much on advertising to kids, leave prices where they are, pay the tax, and eat the difference.

The struggle to reduce sugar consumption via an economic solution is entwined with the eternal British problem of class warfare.

The drawback of behavioral interventions is that, unless the subjects are in a very restrictive environment like boot camp, people can’t be made to do things.

Any time a sugar tax is proposed the same arguments are heard. Who benefits? Who gets hurt? Where does a government’s concern for the citizens’ welfare end?

To advance the interests of the beverage industry is not part of the CDC’s job description, but to improve the health of Americans including obese children is.

We keep learning about Dr. Michael Pratt, a senior CDC official whose coziness with the soft drink industry violates many a comfort level.

A few unseemly ties have been uncovered between the Coca-Cola Company and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

According to the UK’s National Health Service, junk food and sugar-sweetened beverages would kill 53,000 and cost nearly $8 billion yearly.

In Colombia, right-wing paramilitary groups serve as private armies to protect the interests of Coca-Cola and other corporate entities.

Coca-Cola loves to invest in emerging markets, and it’s in the middle of a 10-year plan calling for $17 billion worth of investment in the African continent.

A recent CSPI report says soda manufacturers invest “heavily to boost consumption in low- and middle-income countries.”

After a study found 287 industrial chemicals in the umbilical cords of the U.S.-born babies the idea of obesogenic POPs was taken seriously.

This post continues to follow the progress of efforts to end child obesity in the United Kingdom.

Studies find that, in a school setting, kids will often choose water if it’s easily available, instead of beverages with caloric content.