NYT blockbuster on Coca Cola funding of weight loss advocacy group

sheldonklein

Terrific story about Coke giving millions to highly reputable scientists to advocate that excess calorie intake is not key to obesity. http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2015/08/09/coca-cola-funds-scientists-who-shift-blame-for-obesity-away-from-bad-diets/
Have these scientists simply been corrupted by the money? If not what explains this?

elphie754

Hold on, need to get my tin foil hat.

Blueseraphchaos

Wow, i made it to the part where there is no compelling evidence that eating too much is the reason for obesity and i quit reading.

Speshul snowfwakes, yup.

Blueseraphchaos

Ah, knew i saw this somewhere else on this board.

Didn't realize it made it into the news already. Or at all.

crazyjerseygirl

Welp, as a scientist I can confirm that we like money just as much as the next person.

Remember, it's CICO, calories in, calories out. So yeah, you can try to out-exercise your diet, but that can be exceedingly difficult if a person is eating way above their maintenance limit and doesn't even know it! Basically they are just trying to push the CO side of the equation. "Hey, drink this coke then run for 3 hours to burn it off!"
It will fail in the end once people realize how much time it takes to burn off something as simple as a Coke, let alone a Coke and a sandwich.

marsinah1

Thanks for posting that link. It certainly made for an interesting read. My favorite part was when they tried to downplay how much ownership Coke had over the group by claiming that the only reason the company owned their website was because a group of college professors couldn't figure out how to register it.