It is beyond reprehensible that the U.S. government is putting the interests of powerful American sugar barons ahead of the global fight against obesity. Last week I posted in the blog that the British Medical Journal reports that the U.S. government has rejected a link between junk food and obesity in a confidential letter to the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). Today Anthony Colpo did a wonderful expansion on the details of this letter.
The Omnivore January 28, 2004