EXPOSED: Coca-Cola’s Scam To Keep Kids Drinking Soda

Coke is shutting down a program that’s aim was to reduce childhood obesity. Critics say, however, that it’s true goal was to deemphasize the unhealthy qualities of soda and told students to focus on exercise instead. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian (The Point), and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?!) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

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“After being exposed as an industry-influenced organization, the Coke-funded anti-obesity Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) was disbanded on Monday. From the GEBN’s website:

Effective immediately, GEBN is discontinuing operations due to resource limitations. We appreciate the commitment to energy balance that the membership has demonstrated since our inception, and encourage members to continue pursuing the mission “to connect and engage multi-disciplinary scientists and other experts around the globe dedicated to applying and advancing the science of energy balance to achieve healthier living”.

But don’t shed any tears for Coca-Cola or the soda industry. The now-defunct GEBN is only one of numerous campaigns, programs and organizations that Big Soda uses to spread its unscientific message of energy balance. The soda industry is even in our schools telling children as young as two, ‘don’t drink less soda, just exercise more.’”