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Mike Bloomberg donated $600 million (with an additional $125 million from Bill Gates) to combat tobacco in low- and middle-income countries. Here is the plan u

Mike Bloomberg donated $600 million (with an additional $125 million from Bill Gates) to combat tobacco in low- and middle-income countries. Here is the plan used in NYC based on the WHO MPOWER program: http://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(07)60782-X/abstract http://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(07)60782-X/abstr... NYC also placed over 1,000 fruit and vegetable carts in poor parts of the city where fruits and vegetables had not been readily available. While the attempts to limit sugar-added beverage consumption failed, the publicity over the 3 different attempts against Coke and Pepsi ultimately resulted lower consumption. An interesting behind-the-scenes story can be read if former NYC Health Commissioner's new book, "Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and the Fight for Eight Million Lives"

tracker1 11y ago
Regarding sugar consumption, I do wish that more efforts like Coca-Cola Life were made... mixing lower-calorie sweeteners... and for that matter, making things less sweet in general. The effects on gut flora from the artificial sweeteners (according to recent studies) is scary. As a diabetic, I've leaned towards far more water, and far less anything else (some tea, arnold palmers, etc). I wish that there was more effort to curve the marketing of anything using refined sugars. Hell, just preventing the advertisement of any product that has more than 50% of its' calories from refined sugar from shows airing before 8pm and those whose primary demographic is children would be incredibly impactful.