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Under pressure from advocacy groups, school boards, and state legislatures, the three largest soft-drink companies announced last week that they would stop selling soft drinks and other sugary beverages in U.S. schools. The agreement, brought about by negotiations between the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the beverage companies Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Cadbury Schweppes, will go into effect beginning next fall and will affect over 35 million children. Under the agreement, milk, juice, and bottled water will replace soft drinks, and their portion sizes will be capped. Many individual school districts and states have already taken steps...
...natural, unsweetened teas are fast gaining favor, as are chilled organic brews, such as Honest Tea. The new Cha Dao brand, left, uses actual tea leaves, not concentrates or powders common in other brands. (But because it has no preservatives, it must stay refrigerated.) Ito En's newest drink, Sencha Shot, right, is a potent green tea. The mini can is full of antioxidants and has zero calories...
...adviser Ira Magaziner--one of the architects of the ill-fated 1994 health-care-reform plan--began approaching food and beverage companies about voluntarily controlling what they sell to kids. Of all the unhealthy foods students consume, sugary beverages were the obvious place to start. First of all, kids drink tons of the stuff. The average 11-to-14-year-old consumes almost twice as much soda as water; 15-to-19-year-olds pour down an average of two 12-oz. servings of soda every day--in the process consuming 1.5 lbs. of sugar each week. The benefits...
...says they argued that if these kids were almost old enough to fight in Iraq, why should they be denied their choice of soda? The companies ultimately relented, but with so many product lines and so many portion sizes, working out the details took time. Says Magaziner: "We negotiated drink by drink with them, literally." Most of the time it was Magaziner who did the jawboning. Only when things got stuck would he bring in Clinton to give the participants a presidential push...
...That afternoon, Jones poured out nearly a thousand cups of Kool Aid laced with cyanide and, in an excruciating parody of the Eucharist, told the faithful to take and drink. They were committing, he said, "an act of revolutionary suicide, protesting the conditions of an inhumane world." In the detritus of the ensuing carnage, a note was "If nobody understands, it matters not, I am ready to die now. Darkness settle on Jonestown on its last day on earth...