The smear campaign has proven so effective for the food police that it has become a cookie cutter operation. The cover story of a recent issue of The Nation magazine provides a classic example of the campaign at work. Soft drink, coffee and tea industries. Scientific research has linked caffeine to anxiety, respiratory ailments, possible bone loss and other health worries. Soda barons have used sly marketing ploys to target children.
Children can become dependent on caffeine.
Coke and Pepsi are pushing a drug on pre-adults, one that may have serious health consequences for a whole generation. Kids, teens and younger kids, children. The American Medical Association says caffeinated sodas are being aggressively advertised to kids. The American Dietetic Association worries children won t reach sufficient bone mass. A Johns Hopkins University professor calls caffeine a pharmacological destabilizer.