Thursday, May 19, 2005

Who's Funding Public Health Organizations?

If you are wondering why Americans are losing the wars on cancer, heart disease and diabetes, you might look at the funding sources of the major public health groups.
Big corporations dump big money into these groups. And pretty soon, the groups start taking the line of the big corporations.
Case in point: the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
Earlier this month, the ADA cut a deal with candy and soda pop maker Cadbury Schweppes.
Here's the deal -- Cadbury Schweppes kicks in a couple million dollars to the ADA.
In return, the company gets to use the ADA label on its diet drinks -- plus the positive publicity generated by the deal.

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