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Barry Popkin is quoted in a New York Times article<\/a> <\/strong>discussing two recently published studies that show how multinational food companies can affect nutrition and health policies that come from various governments.<\/p>\n

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China\u2019s fitness-is-best message, as it happens, has largely been the handiwork of Coca-Cola and other Western food and beverage giants, according to a pair of new studies that document how those companies have helped shape decades of Chinese science and public policy on obesity and diet-related illnesses like Type 2 diabetes and hypertension.<\/p>\n

The findings, published Wednesday in The BMJ<\/a> <\/strong>and The Journal of Public Health Policy<\/a><\/strong>, show how Coca-Cola and other multinational food companies, operating through a group called the International Life Sciences Institute<\/a>,<\/strong> cultivated key Chinese officials in an effort to stave off the growing movement for food regulation and soda taxes that has been sweeping the west.<\/p>\n

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China\u2019s public health initiatives almost always promote exercise, and they seldom mention the value of cutting calories or reducing the consumption of processed food and sugar-sweetened beverages, which many experts say is essential for losing weight, keeping it off, and improving health.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t use physical activity alone to get rid of obesity, hypertension or diabetes,\u201d said Barry Popkin, a professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the full news article here<\/a><\/strong>, or find further details in the publications in The BMJ<\/a><\/strong> and The Journal of Public Health Policy<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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