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  • April 23, 2004

Earlier this week I wrote of the encouraging news of Chicago schools banning soda from school vending machines. Today we learn of a report from England that shows a one-year campaign discouraging both sweetened and diet soft drinks led to a decrease in the percentage of elementary school children who were overweight or obese. This makes perfect sense as each can of soda a child consumes as a daily average increases their risk of obesity by 60 percent. Scientifically, this is related to the...