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U.S. Bottled Water Sales Could Surpass Soda By 2017
2015-08-26 22:27:44| Beverages - Topix.net
Bottled water is expected overtake soda in the U.S. market for the first time in 2017, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal . The article, which cited projections by Beverage Marketing Corp., said that bottled water consumption increased by another 7 percent in 2014.
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Soda pop industry pumps $100 million into defeating public health initiatives
2015-08-25 23:49:30| Beverages - Topix.net
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and the American Beverage Association have spent at least $106 million to defeat public health initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels since 2009, according to an analysis conducted by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest. The watchdog group says the actual amount spent by the soda industry is much greater, since campaign finance and lobby expenses are not available in 10 out of the 23 jurisdictions that have considered policies aimed at reducing sugar drink consumption.
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Firefighters struggle to contain blazes as Soda Fire becomes largest in US
2015-08-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Winds helped stoke wildfires sweeping across the northern Rocky mountains, the Pacific northwest and elsewhere on Saturday, posing new problems for firefighters trying to contain flames that have been fed by drought. One blaze, the Soda Fire near Nampa in south-west Idaho, had burned 265,000 acres to become the largest such blaze in the nation. The weather was expected to worsen fires in some areas over the weekend, as the federal government said it would exhaust its firefighting budget next...
Soda Executives Are Just as Evil as Tobacco Executives
2015-08-12 01:37:50| Beverages - Topix.net
A report out of the New York Times makes it one thing very clear: Big Soda is quietly killing people while funding bad smokescreen science that says the opposite. How long until the people who run Coke are held accountable? http://gawker.com/exactly-how-ma... The gist of the Times piece is simple: the Coca-Cola Company is spending millions of dollars to fund semi-bogus research organizations that will put pro-soda talking points into medical literature, namely that fat people are only fat because they don't exercise enough, not because they ingest trays of garbage and cheap sugary drinks.
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Is soda as bad as the anti-Coke graphic says?
2015-08-11 16:47:46| Beverages - Topix.net
You may have seen a graphic circulating on the internet stating how your body reacts to drinking one Coca-Cola. It says Coke has some pretty negative effects on your body, from an insulin burst to increased dopamine production to the dreaded sugar crash.
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