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Article: Sugar intake guideline sours food industry
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- March 3, 2003
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REPORT:
Global study suggests limit could reduce obesity-linked diseases.
Soft drink association says exercise should be the real focus.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON _ People should get no more than 10 percent of their
calories from sugar, experts say in a major new report released today
on how to stem the global epidemic of obesity-linked diseases.
The study is the most significant in more than a decade on what
the world should be doing about its diet. Although concerns about
sugar intake are not new, very few experts have recommended a
specific limit.
The food industry immediately decried the document, insisting more
exercise is the key to ending obesity.
The report was commissioned by two ...