Proof the AAFP sold out to Coca Cola? 5.1.2010 10:30:0 +0000 You may remember my posts and podcast regarding the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and their unholy partnership with Coca Cola. According to the AAFP the partnership was established to provide much needed funds ($600,000) to revamp their website FamilyDoctor.org and to develop materials regarding how to healthily choose beverages.
Well I decided to tool around FamilyDoctor.org's new digs and see how they made out.
Want to know what I found?
Well they've made a lot of videos.
I decided to watch the ones that I thought ought to have mentioned the importance of minimizing sugary beverage calories. I watched:
The videos were beautifully produced yet wholly unhelpful. The information provided therein was just barely more useful than, "Buy Low and Sell High" to get rich in the stock market or, "Eat Less and Exercise More" to lose weight.
So were there specific directives to avoid sugar sweetened beverages?
Yes. One. In the Nutrition Fundamentals video there was a single one word mention of soft drinks in their inclusion in a list of foods with empty calories. Sadly reducing surgary beverages wasn't mentioned in any of the other videos.
Now to be fair, there are some mentions on FamilyDoctor.org's written materials that suggest sugar-sweetened beverages should be avoided - but of course those written materials were PCC (pre-Coca Cola).
Oh, and conspicuously absent from the site? Beverage and sweetener guidance information - the very same information the AAFP reported Coca Cola's monies were meant to fund.
[Think the Coke partnership's bad? Wait until you see tomorrow's post on who the AAFP is letting advertise in their "Patient Education Program".]
In the past 2 years there have been 119 warnings issued by Health Canada regarding so-called "natural" weight loss remedies.
Not only is Health Canada ignoring the fact that to date there are no known significantly effective natural weight loss aids, they're clearly doing an awful job of ensuring that the products that they are allowing to steal Canadians' hard earned money and well-intentioned hope aren't in fact injected with prescription medications.
And for icing on the cake, this past December Health Canada announced that despite being now 6 years old, that it would be at least another year before the Natural Health Products Directorate actually did anything about ensuring natural health products met any criteria whatsoever.
Anyone out there want to take a bet that not only will it take longer than an additional year but that the criteria they establish will be woefully underpowered and still won't sweep the many miracles in a bottle that prey on defenseless Canadians off store shelves?
Want to know what I'm talking about?
Here are some scans from some local flyers:
(Oh, and by the way, this is not the Health Canada bombshell I was alluding to at the close of last year. Stay tuned for that one in the coming week or two)
Hope you enjoyed reading the blog as much as I've enjoyed writing it.
Stay tuned in January when I've got a world exclusive on a story that is perhaps the most horrifying and irresponsible thing Health Canada's ever set out to do (and from me that's saying a lot!) - unless someone gets to it first. It may be a few weeks into January. It's a complicated story to tell properly and if Health Canada succeeds it won't only affect Canada but countries the world over.
I'm taking a blog-cation until January 4th and just in case you missed them the first time around, here's my favourite posts of each month of 2009.
January The Lancet hates the UK's new obesity initiative.
February Read how two little French towns are curing childhood obesity.
March Why isn't Canada banning canned soft drinks?
April Irony Alert: Kellogg's named one of the world's most ethical companies.
June Thoughtful elementary students ignored in quest for healthier cafeteria food.
July PETA - Eating animals OUT, objectifying women IN.
August Watch Maple Leaf Foods VP joke about the worst listeria outbreak in Canadian history.
September Hypocrisy and the Heart and Stroke Foundation's kids report.
October Silence and blind faith cripple hope for Canadian nutritional reform.
November Of course there is such a thing as a bad food.
December Ontario residents to wait even longer for bariatric surgery.
Happy Holidays!
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If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
My Dearest Friend, if circumstance would allow at this time I would say let us walk together through our existence in this world. Thank you Cyn for the friendship :) Have a lovely weekend!
great! i have never heard of zigime, let me know im always open to anything especially if it is being brought to me by a friend. until then take care x
We all need someone to talk to in our life, a friend to whom we run in times of stress or strife: together we must each have ground that's where love's nourishment is found. Have a wonderful weekend my friend :)
Hi Cyne! In the Soo is getting cold, but, that is ok! I already look forward to ice fishing. Leaves starting to change colors and views are spectacular; fall is my favorite time of the year just like winter. Hunting season has started and plenty of time I’ll spend in the bush…yep! I love it. Where do you live? Enjoy your day and be grateful that is above the water. Warm hugs to you my friend.
MS Excel (or any spreed sheet program)would be great for that and you could also copy and paste when you need to use the links. make a columns for 'program name', 'referral link', 'ID', etc. then you can sort the columns by alphabet or whatever.
or
just create a notepad document for each program and name it after the program. Then use it like a 'notepad' for each program... keep the programs' affiliate links, user names, maybe passwords, listed on the document. Then you can put the notepad files you have for each program in a folder in 'your docs' and use the file sort features in your operating system. sort by date modified, name(alpha-numeric), file size ...etc.
Are you talking about me specifically or any one generally? what links are you referring to? you want then easy for others to find or for you to keep track of them?
9/24/2009
Cynergy Diva
47 years old Female South Eastern Ontario, Canada Hometown: Montreal QC
My nest is empty now and I'm looking for new endeavours to keep me busy.While recovering from my broken ankle, I've been let go from my office job, so I've been exploring ways to do something for myself in order to be free from the demands of other people. To that end, I've been looking at learning how to market online. Experimenting with a lot of different things - some of them turned out to be scams - I have stumbled on something that looks really intriguing that I'm going to examine further. (See MoreNiche blog)
I really like this online socializing. The internet really makes the world a small place, and I hope I can really broaden my horizons and meet a lot of new people. Lifelong learning and personal empowerment are important to me. I'm always looking for new ways to improve myself, and if anything I learn can be passed on for the benefit of others, then that makes me happy.
I love the girly stuff: knitting, sewing,quilting, crafting and shopping.
I love to read too, but I'm really passionate about seeing my fellow humans better themselves and their circumstances. Cynergy (Synergy) is my keyword.
R&B - New Country - Pop - Jazz
I like most music and I'm not fanatical about any one artist. About the only music I can't take is Opera and Heavy Metal. My favorite radio stations are: BBC Radio 2; KJAZZ; and the local oldies station AM 1220 Cornwall
Fave song as of Aug 2007 The Way I Are
Movies:
My faves are The Grapes of Wrath, Corrina, Corrina & Edward Scissor Hands - The last movie I saw was Stomp The Yard - 2 thumbs up!
TV:
My two favorites are British soaps Coronation Street and Eastenders; I love the Brit coms and westerns too
Books:
I like to read for personal development, and I love historical and generational sagas, but I'm not ashamed to say that I do enjoy trashy romance novels too. Some of the books that I have enjoyed are: The The Power of Intention by Dr Wayne Dyer - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - Just about all of Danielle Steele's novels. Now Reading: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
by Eckhart Tolle
by Dr Wayne Dyer - The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown - Just about all of Danielle Steele's novels. Now Reading: 
by Eckhart Tolle 