A google search on the phrase American Association of Family Doctors turns up a lot of hits for the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Association of Family Practice Physicians, but not the one referenced in this article.

When the phrase is put into quotes as such, "American Association of Family Doctors", I get only 4 results from google and none of them are an official association web site.

This sounds like a bogus association to me.

It's "American Academy of Family Physicians", not Association.

Check this page out:

http://www.ada.org/public/wrigley/index.asp

Apparently Wrigley's donated a nice sum of money to the ADA to buy some good press. Anyone who knows anything about oral health knows that gum with sugar is every bit as bad to the teeth as candies with sugar.

They have more lawyers than doctors.

It's HFCS, which corporations do not want you to suspect. HFCS is fucking EVIL, boys and girls.

btw can you believe this fucked-up redesign on the letters section? Ye Gods.

American Academy of Family Physicians.

I think I created three different bogus lobbying groups in my original post.

I am chastened.

They could if they wanted to, make coke with healthier ingredients - fruit juice sweetener, whatever. And if it was a healthier drink more people could drink more off setting the higher production costs. What are we talking about per 12 oz can anyway? 1-5¢?

Using very sweet concentrated fruit juice as sweetener is not going to be a big improvement. The real problem with drinks like coke is not the type of sugar, it's the amount of sugar and the number of calories per unit of thirst quenched.

People CAN get used to drinking something less sweet and that sweetness can be from fruit. My son is a type 1 diabetic. In Europe we could by cheaply drinking yogurt and fruit mouse which were sweetened with a combination of fruit juice and a very little artificial sweetener. He didn't eat much of either but they were nice treats and neither of these raised his sugar.

The problem in America is the country is so twisted and distorted in every way it's impossible for people to comprehend when someone says sweetened with fruit juice anything but infestation!

Actually, doctors can be influenced for a lot less than six figures. Money talks, food and flattery whisper. This nurse remembers the good old days when drug reps brought a 'free' lunch...

http://kmareka.com/2006/07/30/confessions-of-a-drug-lunch-slut/

I love coca cola. Love, love, love it. I have about one a week, and supplement the rest of the week with diet versions of the real thing. This kind of duplicitous marketing is enough for me to get over my desire for their product and boycott them entirely. I may even start drinking water (bleh).

Also, I'm not a Family Medicine doctor - but my wife is. I've learned from her that this type of underhanded marketing (creating official-sounding organizations as a means to subvert sound medical recommendations) is a common occurrance.