{"id":5577,"date":"2015-08-12T09:34:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2015-08-12T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T09:34:08","slug":"coca-cola-funded-science-group-says-energy-balance-not-calories-answer-to-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/coca-cola-funded-science-group-says-energy-balance-not-calories-answer-to-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola-funded Science Group Says \u2018Energy Balance,\u2019 Not Calories, Answer to Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"obesity\"<\/a>An epidemic of obesity continues to balloon across the United State and many developed countries. But whether sedentary lives or unhealthy diets are the main cause remains a matter of contention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enter the\u00a0Global Energy Health Network, a new group founded to research the interplay between physical activity and diet. People need to remain active to burn calories as they consume them to remain in \u201cenergy balance,\u201d according to their message. Diet is not necessarily the main culprit, they say.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s just one catch: the Network is funded by Coca-Cola, the world\u2019s biggest makers of sodas and sugar-filled drinks, according to the group\u2019s site.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group has on its staff some of the country\u2019s leading health experts \u2013 who say that high-calorie intake including fast food do not necessarily explain the epidemic of obesity and the constant increase of Type 2 Diabetes, according to\u00a0a video released by the group.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s really virtually no compelling evidence that that in fact is the cause\u2026 We have to learn how to get the right information out there,\u201d said Steve Blair, a professor at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. \u201cWe want to educate the world better on energy balance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The group originally listed private philanthropy, the University of Colorado and the University of South Carolina as the supporters of the group.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, after\u00a0scrutiny by\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0and several academics, the group acknowledged that it is funded by\u00a0an \u201cunrestricted gift\u201d from Coca-Cola.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the group\u2019s scientists wrote an editorial in the\u00a0British Journal of Sports Medicine<\/em>, in which they say more data is needed to explore the relationship between physical inactivity and the obesity epidemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, Blair and the other scientists also published a study funded by Coca-Cola which found that increasing physical activity would be\u00a0easier than trying to reduce a population\u2019s caloric intake.<\/span><\/p>\n

Company-funded scientific reviews of the effects of sugars and diet on obesity have been analyzed in the past \u2013 and they can be influenced by the dollar amount, some say.<\/span><\/p>\n

A review published in\u00a0PLoS Medicine<\/em>\u00a0in December 2013 found that systemic reviews of sugar-sweetened beverages\u2019 effects on obesity were five times less likely to establish a link between the two if there were financial conflicts of interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Source: dddmag<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An epidemic of obesity continues to balloon across the United State and many developed countries. But whether sedentary lives or unhealthy diets are the main cause remains a matter of contention. Enter the\u00a0Global Energy Health Network, a new group founded to research the interplay between physical activity and diet. People need to remain active to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",420,280,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obesity.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}