context. the coronavirus of the code special monday to friday on t.w. . this is d.o.b. news a live from far away on his final full day in office u.s. president donald trump of bids farewell to the nation i stand before you truly proud of what we have achieved together. we did what we came here to do and show march more in a taped a speech trump touts his america 1st legacy and wishes joe biden good luck without

mentioning him by name also coming up on the show in germany extends it's locked out coronavirus restrictions will now stay in place until the middle of february the recent drop in infection rates wasn't enough to ease measures stricter mass calls are coming into force as part of tougher controls to curb new variants of coke at 90. plus and smells like teen spirit 17 year old florian fads scores the game winner against all mention the chalet for clues into 2nd place in the bundesliga just 2 points claim to be leaders i n t x. o n k richardson welcome to the show u.s. president donald trump has made his farewell speech to the nation in which he defended his america 1st legacy hearing. a close

a turbulent 4 years in office most recently with the storming of the u.s. capitol by his supporters 2 weeks ago now president trump is breaking with a longstanding american tradition and will not attend wednesday's inauguration of his successor president elect joe biden. it's been 4 turbulent he is but don't trump has said his final goodbyes to the presidency we embarked on a mission to make america great again for all americans as i could glued my term as the 45th president of the united states i stand before you truly proud of what we have achieved together we did what we came here to do and so much more i also want to thank for the rest a 4 percent approval rating it will be hard to find many that agree but trump has certainly delivered on his pledge to shake up american politics. and up to.

trump leaves office a week after he was impeached for the 2nd time for his role in this he's been charged with inciting an insurrection on the capital after his supporters stormed the building making him the only president in u.s. history to be impeached twice. the top republican in congress mitch mcconnell turned his back on his longtime ally and on tuesday condemned trump's role in the capitol feed. the mob was. they were provoked by the president and other powerful people. meanwhile security has been beefed up considerably in contrast to 2 weeks ago some national guard troops have even been removed from biden's inauguration after being vetted by the f.b.i. including 2 who posted extremist views. but all eyes now turn to incoming president

joe biden who on arriving in washington d.c. on tuesday paid tribute to the u.s. has 400019 victims. to heal we must remember. it's hard sometimes to remember. but that's how we heal it's important to do that as a nation. that's why we're here today in. the pandemic and the threat of violence means biden will be inaugurated to little pomp and ceremony but certainly an overflowing into. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world italian prime minister josep a contact has narrowly won a crucial confidence vote to stay in power it comes after former premier my terror renzi pulled his party out of the coalition government a country failed to secure an absolute majority meaning he now heads

a minority government that will struggle to implement its policies. rescuers in eastern china are stepping up efforts to try to reach 22 miners trapped in a gold mine authorities have established contact with 12 of the men who have been stuck underground since an explosion damaged the entrance to a mine 10 days ago affairs for their survival are growing. in tunisia police have clashed with protesters for a 5th night in several cities including arianna the unrest has been sparked by mounting anger over the country's economic crisis worsened by the pandemic police used tear gas while protesters set barricades on fire and threw objects at security forces. turning to germany now which is getting a tougher on the coronavirus despite a drop in new infections the government has just announced measures that will see the current lockdown extended to mid february and imposes stricter rules about

wearing masks charmin leaders hope the restrictions can stem the spread of new coronavirus variants believed to be more transmissible just as infection numbers were starting to decline in germany variant strains of code 19 believed to be more contagious could undo all the. there have been isolated cases of some strains and authorities want to get on top of the threat. and this isn't just the scientists tell us that it's is not yet dominant this still time so to speak to contain the dangerousness of course it would be wrong to conclude that we still have all the time in the wall to act we have to act now. so just over a month into germany's current shutdown the chancellor and the 16 state premiers agreed to extend the existing measures until mid february large parts of public

life will remain closed like schools and day cats but also shops museums theaters and dine in restaurants there will be a lot more of these to be seen medical masks will be compulsory on public transport and in shops f f p 2 masks off a greater protection a common surgical masks will also be allowed and this to be much more working from home the government is imposing stricter rules to stop office workers from commuting as much reducing the inspection risk on public transport germany's leaders are once again appealing for patients. it's hard what we have to expect of people but the precautionary principle has priority that's what we have to take into account and that is what we have taken into account today for now the public is mostly on side recent polling shows 40 percent are happy with

stricter measures while just over 20 percent would prefer things to stay as they are but around a 3rd one tristrem actions to be eased or and completely. before that happens there's likely to be some hard weeks ahead infection rates are still nearly 3 times the preferred level but with patience persistence and sticking to the rules authorities hope the pandemic will start to loosen its grip over germany . for more let's bring in chief political editor michelle who was at that press conference where medical spoke and stricter measures have been just cited what is germany's strategy here well now is shifting into a preventative strategy in fact a lot of those measures won't even deepen that terribly much only on schooling really there's no longer a requirement for children to be present anywhere in any in schools the real

significance here is that there's an extension until moved despite the fact that there is a downward trend in terms of the rate of new infections so that's positive news and yet german chancellor angela merkel insisted that now was the time to prevent those mutations of viruses taking over she cited particularly britain also ireland but potentially also brazil and south africa and the fear is with those strains believed to be way more contagious than the covered $900.00 we know so far that they could be simmering underneath those decreasing figures those positive signals and that there then could suddenly be exponential growth so for now it's a message just hold out there and continue this lockdown here and many now what do you imagine chancellor angela merkel's mood will be after making this announcement . well she was trying to be a bit of beat but now germans will be required to wear a medical mask when they go into shops and on public transport there's also

a legal requirement now for employers to allow for people to work from home unless there's a significant reason for them not to so this is yet another change she knows that this is a strain also on the patients of germans and yet she really signals that it is worth it and that she is once again simply following what the scientists have mapped out for her she's never really happen coming out of these hours long meetings with the state premiers because it's a difficult one they are the ones who will the power in the end to implement these lockdown measures but she was trying to be upbeat and speaking of patience the meeting did take longer than expected what exactly was the hold up. well there's something like a traditional sticking point here which is schooling because because that clearly is within the or thora t. of the individual federal states here in germany and there has been quite

a patchy scene in terms of which children must not go to school at all some were still required to go well that has now been evened out there's no requirement for kids to go to school but as much as there is a looming fear of the move taishan of viruses there's also a growing tangible concern amongst decision makers that the social factor could get just as pressing as the medical factor here in this pandemic our chief political editor michelle thank you very much. with corona virus cases on the rise pakistan has approved a china's sino farm vaccine for emergency use the approval comes just days after authorities greenlight at the oxford astra zeneca vaccine pakistan is also hosting mass trials for a nother chinese made vaccine can assign no bio the testing requires thousands of willing volunteers but they're tough to find in a country where anti-vaccination sentiment runs deep the distrust is due in part to

a fake vaccination program that the united states organized in pakistan in 2011 as part of their hunt for al qaeda leader osama bin laden after that violence against health care workers increased. vaccination teams going door to door in pakistan a part of an immunization drive against polio but these health workers also need protection over the past decade more than 100 vaccinators have been killed in targeted attacks fueled by conspiracy theories and misinformation. hostile anti vacs is a republican threat in pakistan in need of an antidote especially as the country prepares for mass immunizations against covert 19 phase 3 trials are underway here for chinese vaccine developer can see no boy logics but researchers are still in countering mistrust and fia with this kind of. book there are those misconceptions are in fact anything you would do for the 1st time you've come across people who

have this fear factor part of the problem is. fundamentalists people who are trying . superstitions and myths into this that the vaccine might be or sign it is. and then maybe that's the reason why we're still struggling with that scene when it comes to the coronavirus pakistani authorities are also struggling to communicate the dangers and the urgent need to stamp it out in a recent poll more than a 3rd of pakistanis said they'd refuse any covert vaccine that became available. and turning to german football now fire at laser leverkusen excuse me have defeated it will receive a dartmouth in the big a midweek bundesliga showdown. was the man or should i say the teenager of the hour he helped leverkusen notch an important 3 points and keep their shot at the league title alive after not winning since mid december. both leverkusen and dortmund

wanted to get back to winning ways in midweek action. laver because in fired the 1st warning shot in just the 2nd minute. 17 year old. launched a rocket that was almost too hot for roman burkey and his defense to handle. 12 minutes later bailey sent a beautiful long pass to most b. who coolly slotted it into the net nice job controlling the ball before taking his shots. dortmund equalized midway through the 2nd half thanks to you leon brunt a powerful effort from long range for his 1st goal of the season. laver cozen had the last word late teenager vets hitting the target this time with a shot that was faster then burkey 21 the final score. today refusing to

get their 1st win since mid december and remain very much in the title race. that is your news update at this hour coming up next is just a documentary about what might become of the biggest global chat health challenge in decades to come guess what it's not the coronavirus stay tuned for that to find out don't forget you can always get the latest news and information around the clock on our web site at d. w. dot com or follow us on social media at news i'm claire richardson in berlin for me the whole new team it's watching. your. life on earth you want to kind and. just get a coincidence. or is probably what happened. it's a bit like winning the lottery. one story or unique starts feb

11th on t.w. . the obesity epidemic and the most important international health problem. let me does the body by 2030 half the world would be obese or overweight this is a disaster. it's a manmade tragedy. earlier in my life. i thought that my weight was all my fault. i felt like a failure. and frankly. unworthy. and i took me

a while to really start questioning the lives and challenging those thoughts like well are you are really a failure and the answer is no i'm not i'm not but it took awhile to get to that point. obesity a blob of our errors fantasies caught in a web of prejudice it prompts scolding for poor choices and accusations of laziness and limited genes provide an alibi. but what if obesity were a collective failure not an individual one the symptom of a free market that hates fat but produces fatsos and obese or genic society. it's a global phenomenon not one country has halted and. right

now there are 2000000000 people adults and children who are overweight or obese this doesn't happen by magic it takes work and we need to look at her as he is that is driving the process. in the 1st years of the 21st century western countries declared war on obesity to no avail. experts estimate that by 2030 there will be 250000000 obese children in the world. if our government's taken the right track.

at least 2 thirds of men and women in the u.k. are overweight. and the right still on. the base it's a smart changing impact on the can slowly lower your color to fly. according to the message to spread far and wide we alone are to blame for our weight fat people are simply gluttons unable to control their appetites. you have a choice make the change. we are told it's up to us but is it really. for me the most difficult stigma to cope with is this idea that the people have no will power the people in larger bodies people don't have

a will power urls they wouldn't carry excess weight because we're told so often that that's all it takes to lose weight go to the gym follow this diet program you know if you just stick to it you'll get there. for public health officials were sure that a little personal willpower was all it would take to slay obesity eat less exercise more became the mantra of the 2 thousands it would go around the world. so let's start moving let's start pushing twisting climbing and raising the roof let's start moving more every day for 30 minutes or 60 and if you feel like stopping you can always start back up let's start moving it's so easy for us to look at a lean person and say they have such willpower they're so moral and strong and then

look at someone with a weight problem and attribute all these negative traits oh they're just weak they don't have willpower it's not at the individual level it's not individual willpower and if we go on believing that will never change this obesity epidemic hey everybody you know getting active every day helps us all be healthy and feel great . the same old honest advice about exercise is prophet with the best intentions in 2010 michelle obama launched a campaign against childhood obesity the 1st lady led her sassy session to move your body aiming to set healthier standards for food served in school lunch room. we sent. our kids to school we have a right to expect that they won't be eating the kind of very salty sugary foods that we're trying to keep them when they're at home unfortunately you know michelle obama was on the right track right from the beginning and i think she got the

railed by mixture of bad advisors and by bringing in the food the food companies and they were able to dilute a very powerful message down to something where you know it's just her on to the television encouraging people to to move that way rather than let's move together. you know as a movement to be able to transform the food system. better became more. beyond c. easily upstaged the public service message. a boon to the multinationals who quickly joined the dance in 2015 coca-cola created the global energy balance network a worldwide think tank dedicated to solving the obesity problem. by promoting exercise. most of the focus in the popular media and in the scientific perhaps is

over eating too much eating too much eating too much blaming fast food blaming sugary drinks and so on and there's really fortunately no compelling evidence that in fact physical professor steve blair is one of the head researchers recruited for the network he's a specialist physical exercise but maybe the reason they're eating more calories than they need is because they're not burning man so we need to be invalid in just a few years due to this campaign spearheaded by coca-cola the lack of exercise has become central to the question of obesity whereas it is based on a theory that was pulled out of a hat to defend the corporation's product and private interest. just gonna. be him here's how that translates into marketing she. just gonna be on the industry has been so focused on the story of calories and

calories out you can drink what you want just go go on a jog and work off your calories. well we know that actually is not true that's not the true story. allegedly to avoid weight gain we would simply have to burn the same number of calories as we eat the theory sounds logical unfortunately it is untrue physical exercise actually plays a minor role in weight control you have to jog for one hour to eliminate a hamburger a pizza though requires over 2 hours of running. if you look at it from a calorie perspective that is 5 accumulation equals sort of calories then minus calories out of this a well that's always true because if you look at it from from a physics perspective that is always true but the problem is that that's physics and we're dealing with human physiology it really has nothing to do with each other

. i think we should take the focus off of calories yes you can eat less and lose weight for a short while but your body will fight back and over the long term we know that metabolism is stronger than willpower. all right if individual willpower is not to blame what caused the steep rise in the obesity curve starting in the 1980 s. . so what's the difference between 197-2009 teen well i don't think it's the basic biology of the person but it's something to do with the way that we both that the types of food and the frequency of the foods that we eat. in 40 years our eating habits have undergone a real revolution fomented by public health policies of the late 1970 s. at the time cardiovascular disease was the grim reaper causing millions of deaths.

in the senate special committee on nutrition is looking into the connection between diet and hot. see. this sugar lobby succeeded in having a high fat diet declared guilty a false verdict that had serious consequences public health officials recommended that we reduce our intake of fats grains tugun as cholesterol free replaced meat as a staple food. and so eating more brad more rice market tadros for example because they're very low fat and you know eating less dairy less meat low fat dairy back are nothing that was the standard advice for so many years and i think that is the most likely culprit as to why people have gained weight the u.s. government called on the food industry to market thousands of processed foods that were reduced in fat and saturated fat so if you're the food industry and you're supposed to reduce fat what are you going to replace it with all processed grains

and sugar. agro industry sleight of hand made the transition painless sugar a cheap replacement for fat made light foods tasty and addictive chemist went to work extruding ingredients supermarket shelves filled with attractively package starches reprocessed his bread cornflakes and convenience foods the. eating excessive sugar causes deep dysfunctions inside our bodies starting with the hormone imbalance. when you eat certain hormones go up and the main hormone that's a volved in energy metabolism is insulin insulin determines where the calories we eat get burned or get stored as fat. glucose sugar that is fuels nearly all living cells when we eat our pancreas secretes insulin.

and this insulin is what transports sugar to ourselves. when our diets are heavy in foods that are starchy and sweet like processed foods in fact our insulin levels are constantly high. with too much insulin our fat cells the fat tissue and our body takes up too many calories and holds on to them so there aren't enough calories for the rest of the body there aren't enough calories for the muscle for the organs of the brain. and that's why we get hungry. so these highly processed foods fast foods sugary beverages junk foods that we're snacking on they digest very quickly but they don't provide much sit tight so it's these processed carbohydrates the driveway.

despite the negative impact these ultra processed foods have on our metabolism nothing has stopped their spread. it's profitable to sell food because he's fast and sugary and salty and victim it's much less profitable. food that is wholesome that is high and fiber. is minimally processed so what's driving the obesity epidemic and its corporate profits. is dietary revolution has sponsored empires nestle unilever coca-cola kellogg's pepsi co. currently a handful of huge corporations own nearly every brand of food. together they pull in $500000000000.00 in annual sales and have taken control of our dinner plates.

food is a huge sector of our society it's not only the food companies it's not just the nestle's and dan gnomes and cokes and pepsis it's the food retailers it's the wal marts and car reformers it's the agribusiness is they're huge to control all the supplies of commodities and then it's also the marketers it's all the advertisers making money from marketing junk food and beverages to people so we're talking about a math of massive component of our society is focused on selling the world unhealthy foods and beverages. the food multinationals have a secret weapon price the products they sell are up to 60 percent cheaper than fresh foods the shoppers with the smallest budgets stock up. these low

income consumers sitting ducks are the primary victims of the system. the food industry says it's your fault but the reality is they've changed the whole food environment they've created a food environment where every place you turn if it's on your smartphone if it's on seeing a billboard it's seeing any kind of advertisement if it's watching television or movies you see their junk food being pushed. the manipulation starts with the children. the. scientific studies show there is a direct link between the ads children see and the types of food they like to eat but. the world health organization recommends regulating food commercials on t.v.

but the industry is ingenuous it infiltrates new areas like social networks or online games. slick marketing hides the fact that junk food causes one of the most devastating diseases that exists diabetes. today it kills one person every 6 seconds around the world. 25 years ago if i told you that i have an 18 year old patient in my clinic with type 2 diabetes you would have said oh my gosh it's incredible it's so rare it's so strange. now it's very commonplace that young people children have type 2 diabetes through all. the girls were like fighting a war at home. it's heartbreaking it's unfair it's unjust people are making money off of this suffering it's preventable it's

it's dehumanizing to ignore it it's inhumane to ignore it. one of every 2 african-american children go to violent diabetes one of every 5 african-american children is obese the rate is even higher among hispanics. a young woman spoke out and triggered a rebellion. we are. likely still slaves yesterday i decided to write here to meet with leaders of my day to day got heard there was a 1000000 things. and there are sugar flour sugar high japanese. toast for start way counter high fructose corn syrup shipper died of 40 grin. i heard a young woman who was 16 at the time and she performed

a poem that even now it may have made the hair on my arm stand up and for the 1st time i saw a young person describing the obesity and diabetes epidemic as a social problem and i realized that she in a way is a much more effective messenger than i ever could be. but it is the 1st human out that my why he. is like. jean schillinger is cordoning the energy. his nonprofit youth speaks to holtz writing workshops for young people in the bay area. he wants to use rap and spoken word to raise consciousness and thwart food industry propaganda

. this idea that they were being lied to. that's what inspired them to become change agents that's what turned their paul i'm from being a piece of art into a weapon. armed with talent and a video camera they launched an awareness campaign called the bigger picture. so for me each one of those films as a stone. that we were throwing at. the water hole and trying to see which one could make the biggest way. i want to read. my daily routine was to wake up hungry walk to the bus stop pass an exam the liquor stores cash crop by cast the 1st burger king as they made to the 2nd burger king order my favor round hash browns and lost again brown body. and i don't know if we love burger king i just love not being hungry. written and performed chiefly by

young hispanics and african-americans the videos garnered over a 1000000 views on you tube. meanwhile 3000 miles away on the east coast another activist has risen up and commandeered a podium to tell a community it is being decimated and how. this is a crisis in our community f m a s a crisis because i'm finding that i'm losing more people to sweets than i am to the streets and i'm losing more people took diet related issues that i am to the streets to gun violence this is an epidemic and one that i'm deeply concerned about . are already in his combat against this evil reverend coats is not inhibited by the conventions associated with his calling. this can of soda pop right there are

39 grams of sugar 39 grams of sugar in one so now how many teaspoons of sugar is that anyone know how. almost 10 disposals i say what i want to see how much that is and maybe i have. this is how much sugar. isn't just one drink right. and our children are getting pre-diabetic by the ages of 9 and to. be borderline diabetes by the time to 13 years old and we are sabotaging the time a generation of hot people because of sugar pastor william more of an delman coats at mount annan baptist church in clinton maryland are suing coca-cola and the american beverage association. writers do this. the war had moved to the

court room delman could stand to sic the law on the coca-cola corporation. we know that the consumption of sugar and these products exceed the american heart association what are you asking for from coca-cola well what do you want this company when you want coca-cola to end their deceptive marketing practices they have spent $120000000.00 in 5 years between 201-2015 falsely advertising their products. the multinational retaliated by accusing the pastors of freedom of speech violations. and after suing for legal expenses a threat with several $1000000.00 coca-cola now demands that the king's speech dropped. coca-cola statement

the allegations here are likewise legally and factually meritless and we will vigorously defend against them. allegations are that coca-cola misled consumers about the science of sugar sweetened beverages because several of their executives went the press and made statements like there is no link between sugar sweetened beverages and diabetes when that is not the case. for over 20 years the soft drink industry has denied any link between its products and disease to maintain the illusion it employs all sorts of methods since 2015 coca leaks has revealed that the lobby puts pressure on journalists keeps discredit on studies it dislikes finances favorable research and hobnobs with political leaders. to ensure those results contact was established within the

senate we will actively campaign to register that a soft drink tax is discriminatory regressive and will not address the challenge of obesity we have commissioned the economic institute to complete a study which will prove inefficiency of such tax it will be ready in 15 days which will give us another tool to communicate both to the media and to avoid it gains ground within the party. appointed to serve as a scientific expert by the city and county of san francisco deen should linger must untangle the truth from falsehood when we did the analysis of these studies we found that every study that found that there was no association between sugary beverage consumption and obesity diabetes was funded in some way by the industry. where's among all the studies that found that there was an association between the consumption of soda and sugary beverages and obesity diabetes except for one were independently funded so we now know and there's other evidence that industry has

ben. influencing very deeply the medical and scientific establishment to create controversy over the question of whether their products cause disease. the junk food industry is cornered all over the globe activists and demanding tighter legislation to protect consumers the battle has now become political. in the 30 years since warning labels and other forms of regulation were placed on tobacco over 1000000000 the lives have been saved. so that's a pretty good day at the office for people who make policy. illegal cohen and one of her fellow supervisors have made san francisco the 1st u.s. city to declare war on sugary sodas.

when people realize how much sugar they're consuming in one can of soda they stop and they think so we had testimony right here in this chamber of doctors of nurses of researchers that talk to us about the effects of sugar in our body and it was through these ongoing dialogues for years that we came up with that idea to begin to tax sugary beverages. imposing a tax is virtually revolutionary in the united states the industry reached its ads pitch the line that the government was interfering with grocery shoppers the beverage the sugary beverage and history came out they hired lawyers they hired lobbyist they found people within the community to come out and say please don't tell us what to eat or what to drink this is not a nanny state we want to make decisions on our own they spent millions of dollars

as a matter of fact they outspent us almost $6.00 to $1.00 leave me a break i can decide what to buy without government help the government is just getting too involved in our personal lives tell the candidates government. health advocates were able to mobilize citizen protests against the recalcitrant industry we're going to. this bad doctors and politicians lining up outside of san francisco city hall framing the sugar sweetened beverage debate as the people versus big soda you no longer back and let the big soda industry target and hurt our community. the tax was finally voted in. the victory was bitter. when san francisco moved to require health warnings on soda containers like the ones on cigarettes the soft drink lobby sued once again and won on appeal. the warning labels were shelved.

the same method had been used in new york city when mayor michael bloomberg suggested along limiting the size of jumbo soden sold in restaurants. bloomberg was mocked as a scolding nanny and the courts ruled in the end just streets favor. in this faceoff between corporate freedom and consumer protection freedom once again seemed to be the private property of the most powerful i represent a part of san francisco that was emigrate people people who speak english as a 2nd language people who live in subsidized housing public housing tenements and the one thing that we all had in common was that we were dying from preventable diseases dying and you know

it was just really hard to accept. and seem like people didn't care the industry didn't care they continued to target their money and their resources to get people addicted so that they become wealthier. come.

on. we sweeten the world tighter because the markets no longer were growing in europe in the u.s. so coke and pepsi and all the clones all the local companies that do the same thing exploded in marketing and in the lower middle income countries mexico was the 1st country to be colonized by these agribusiness conquerors. today 73 percent of the population is obese or overweight 10 percent have diabetes which has become the primary cause of death. dr the attention of the whole world focused on mexico to figure out why the rate of obesity and overweight and sort of. sugary imperialists attacked one of mexico's greatest treasures

its cuisine valued by unesco as part of our world heritage. the consumption of fruits and vegetables dropped by 30 percent because of well if consumption of beans is fallen by 50 percent in 20 years in 14 years consumption of sweetened beverages has grown by 40 percent. and me here in mexico there are one and a half 1000000 places to buy soft drinks and junk food. with them. for public health it's a criminal situation with the police or. nothing else. each mexican drinks a whopping $144.00 quarts of soda per year on the average a world record. in a country that elected a former coca-cola executive to the president saying challenging the food industry

might appear to be impossible but not for a $100.00 can't deal. with the perfect pay for it here we are in front of the ministry of health with a frankenstein symbolizing the monstrous obesity prevention policy created in collusion with the junk food and soft drink industry it's. kind of a small consumer advocacy group and the under organized the resistance. he found a precious ally within the health ministry itself simon back era a researcher in nutrition i do not have that 2 different visions are at war one is public interest health policy and the other is economic interest who is going to win. because we're right. it took 11 years of fierce struggle battling censors who rejected clip after clip before the research or and the activist finally succeeded in taxing sodas and junk

food in mexico. it was the 1st soda tax in north america. was i do them with the taxes really effective because in the 2 years that followed consumption of sweetened beverages fell in mexico and in the world's largest consumer of soft drinks in when it went down to 4th place. encouraged by the success of the tax 20 associations joined the effort led by kelly oh and back era they demanded a nutritional labeling system and they also hope to raise the tax from 10 to 20 percent. apparently these demands were unacceptable to mysterious nameless opponents. your risk of humans i got a message on my mobile. a text with

a link joy i clicked on the link. in the i would hear it took me to the website of mexico city's main funeral. me he. understood it was a death threat. seymour simon your daughter and they cited her name has had an automobile accident and she is at the hospital in critical condition for further information click here. simon your daughter has just had an accident it's very serious come quickly she's been taken here. police are still trying to identify the suspect who sent this threatening text. eat. meat now live in paradoxical times other merchandise can easily cross borders endangering local producers and junk food as conquering the world barriers

are raised to keep human beings out the. eat eat eat was yes. the revolution came from a country at america's southern tip chile despite the fact that for 30 years it has been the darling a free market enthusiastic the anti obesity movement is led by a senator. for years he has been fighting to dislodge his people from their rank as 3rd world wide in overweight and obesity and if you thought you hadn't yet i was called the devil in one newspaper editorial a devil persecuting those poor corporations they have tried to discredit us they've threatened us and assaulted us but if we were not intimidated by pinochet we will not be intimidated by the multinationals no matter how powerful they mean business . in the past several years sen greedo dear

r.d. a former paediatrician has attracted the industry's ire he has been a fearless crusader in public health protection. first he braved a billionaire president sebastian pinera as official data then he had to overcome the industry's campaign to denigrate him. finally the law passed in 2016 it was the type of pawn agribusiness dreads most it would inevitably the 1st right we gain with this law is the right to know who we created labels that tell you at a glance whether the product contains excessive sugar salt fat or calories in seconds you're informed if we wanted something a 6 year old child could understand. and if it were products that they're a warning label are banned from television commercials because we refuse to have trash advertised on television they're also banned from online advertising they

cannot contain toys or stickers they are banned from using those sneaky ways to grab children's attention. if you get to. the point to send in your fraudulent advertising violates the human rights of children and all the united nations treaties that are supposed to defend children's rights and health. we accuse these corporations of pedophilia because they abuse children that is why i have had extremely violent conflicts with some of them. what the industry argued that the legislation would be ineffective and would penalize the poor but only 2 years after with into effect a virtuous circle for. the sec a good news is that many of the products we thought it would be impossible to reformulate because the industry told us that it was technically impossible are now

made with less sodium and less sugar. the industry itself says that 20 percent of its products have been reformulated for certain categories of products the improvement is even greater from this viewpoint it really is a success. that let us say you have a poker. game a company. and that same 18 month with 25 percent reduction and purchases of sugary beverages in chile. that's unprecedented and we're seeing large reductions of all the ultra processed junk foods as well. that is the 1st time we've saved the glimmer of a country that life changed the norms toward healthy eating. the chill a in food revolution has inspired action in neighboring countries peru has instituted the same labels and iraq way is about to do so and dramatically mexico

is joining them its new president and congress have just passed new legislation requiring the same kind of labeling rice chili with your books on the other side of the atlantic the contrast to striking europe's neutral score labeling is fairly tenet compared to the black labels in chile only a few countries have adopted it and it is not even mandatory. bodies back in 20102011 the european union debated instituting a clear mandatory labeling system of course the corporations oppose the measure by their own admission they spent over 1000000000 euros lobbying to remove the mandatory stipulation. another winning strategy for corporate interests in germany has been to play the role of allies in the fight against obesity. this commercial produced by a supermarket chain promises

a commitment to promoting healthy foods to help children make their dreams come true. but is it really wise to trust the industry. and a wave of overweight and obesity the size of a tsunami is headed for germany but politicians refuse to admit it it is hard to understand how such a highly developed country can be so backward when it comes to prevention has. does hurt him but the corporate lobbies are extremely powerful in germany and. even today economic interest is invariably a higher priority than public health to hear but. the german government counts on the industry's ability to regulate itself it does not impose either taxes on sugary beverages or restrictions on advertising.

it is estimated that by 2040 about 12000000 germans will have to have babies this is tragic. the challenges of our times are clustered in obesity. an explosion of chronic diseases and dangers health care systems. market leviathans limit action on government policy. capital intensive agriculture drives the junk food juggernaut. the whole sugar peddling mass market food industry wants to addict us to cheap empty

calories that lead to chronic disease let's refused to obey. and the toothpaste is up the counter. since 2 tourists disappeared some are struggling to make ends meet. for others almost nothing has changed and they are always on line. this is how locals ended you know new magic experience the

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