We Are Winning the Fight Against Big Soda and the Health Catastrophe It Has Created
Soda and other food corporations will spend fortunes to influence political processes, but we can still win.
We Are Winning the Fight Against Big Soda and the Health Catastrophe It Has Created
The following is an excerpt from the new book Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) by Marion Nestle (Oxford University Press, 2015):
In December 2011, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced some excellent news. After years of city interventions to improve diet and physical activity patterns, the prevalence of obesity among New York children had started to decline. With this evidence that the city’s public health measures were having the desired effect, Bloomberg appointed a task force to recommend further actions.
