“Big soft drink companies have copied big tobacco’s strategies and tricks to distract the public from their dangers.”—Lori Dorman [Berkeley Public Health]

Sugar rush: how Mexico’s addiction to fizzy drinks fuelled its health crisis >

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/nov/04/sugar-rush-how-mexico-addiction-to-fizzy-drinks-fuelled-its-health-crisis-acc

#soft_drinks #fizzy_drinks #obesity #diabetes #Consumer_Power #health_crisis #lobbying #Oaxaca #comida_chatarra #Oaxaca_City #Mexico #Coca_Cola #health #drinks #Oxxo #water #business #junk_food

Medical populism and the COVID-19 pandemic
"...features of medical populism as a style by political leaders in times of pandemic:
1. Simplification of the pandemic
2. Dramatisation of the crisis.
3. Forging of divisions
4. Invocation of knowledge claims.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2020.1807581

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