Coca-Cola Funds Global Energy Balance Network

WHO is recommending limits in sugar intake because of the worldwide increase in people who have excess weight. Drinking one typical can of sugar sweetened beverage exceeds the limit. Nevertheless, it seems that Coca-Cola is interested in research that documents that excess weight is not due to bad diets but to not enough exercise http://nyti.ms/1KZUZ4e They just funded the Global Energy Balance Network to lead this work. 

Coca-Cola Joins BIO

I was reading today's POLITICO Influence that I receive by email when I was surprised to read: "COCA-COLA JOINS BIO: Coca-Cola Company has joined the Biotechnology Industry Organization. The trade group is expanding its multinational members. The group also added Scott Vitters, general manager of the PlantBottle Packaging Platform for Coca-Cola Company, to its Industrial and Environmental Section Governing Board."

Expanding its members?  When I looked at the webpage for BIO it indicated that it was the world's largest biotechnology organization http://www.bio.org/articles/about-bio.  Now that is what I call expansion.