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SMALL BUSINESS
Senate Hearing Pits Soda Against Leading Health/Obesity Experts
Business Wire
Senate hearing on November 5:
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WHAT:
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With a growing body of research implicating soda as the leading culprit in the nation’s costly obesity epidemic, the California legislature will begin investigating the soda/obesity link in a landmark Senate hearing. For the first time both sides of the issue – representatives of the big three soda companies and prominent health researchers – have been called to the table to address the issue of soda’s role in our nation’s health crisis. | |
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WHY:
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The United States is drowning in a $140 billion obesity epidemic with 67 percent of adults in the country presently overweight or obese and an alarming 17 percent of children already suffering the same fate. | |
| “For the first time, U.S. soda companies are being asked to respond to a growing body of research implicating them as a prime contributor to the nations’ obesity crisis,” says Dr. Harold Goldstein, California Center for Public Health Policy executive director. “We simply can’t afford to raise another Pepsi Generation as the soda companies protect their bottom line.” | ||
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WHO:
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Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) – Chair, Senate Select
Committee on Obesity & Diabetes
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Sen. Elaine Kontominas Alquist (D-San Jose) – Chair,
Senate Health Committee
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Nation’s leading experts on health and obesity
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Top officials of the country’s three largest soda companies
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WHEN:
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Thursday, November 5, 2009 | |
| 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. | ||
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WHERE:
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Los Angeles City Hall | |
| City Council Chambers | ||
| 200 North Spring Street | ||
| Los Angeles, CA | ||
Copyright Business Wire 2009
2009-11-04 18:00:00
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