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Article

11 Nov 2010

Author:
Kate Vidinsky, HealthCanal.com

Soft drink industry should focus on child nutrition in developing world

Soft drink companies are well-positioned to help combat child malnutrition in developing countries because of their expanding business and extensive distribution routes. UCSF experts are advocating for these companies to implement public health programs that exploit their access to remote markets by producing healthier products, such as bottled water fortified with essential nutrients...Increasingly, soft drink companies supply products with little or no nutritional value to the developing world, where high rates of malnutrition are a stark contrast to the ongoing obesity epidemic in developed countries...[refers to Coca-Cola]