http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php/category_id/5/subcategory_id/66/article_id/213The Bush Administration made a secret effort ten days ago to head off an initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce the worldwide incidence of obesity, diabetes, cancer and other chronic diseases.
The effort came in the form of a letter from William R. Steiger, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to WHO Director-General J.W. Lee. The letter recites arguments made often by the junk food industry, which in turn echo the efforts of the tobacco industry to deny a connection between smoking and ill health.
The letter is available at:
http://www.commercialalert.org/bushadmincomment.pdf. .
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“Why would this Administration – or any administration – invoke the moral authority of the United States of America on behalf of the junk food and the obesity lobby? If the Bush Administration is successful in halting the WHO initiative, in the long-term it could potentially cost millions of lives across the planet, in terms of needless deaths due to obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases,” Ruskin said.
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every chain grocery store in america has one entire isle, both sides, devoted to snack food. one entire isle.
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