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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute?

Early in August, the New York Times revealed that Coca-Cola was funding an organization at the

university, based at the University of Colorado, the Global Energy Balance Network,

that was doing research to demonstrate that it really didn't

matter how much soda you drank or what you ate, what really mattered was how much exercise

you did in obesity.

Marion Nessel, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies in Public Health and of Sociology

at New York University, an author of the new book

Soda Politics, taking on big soda and winning. Yes, exercise is very important, and I'm for it,

but if you want to manage your weight, you really, really, really have to eat less. And

drinking less soda is a good way to start. Nessel spoke at an event December 14th, sponsored by the New York City Food Policy

Center at Hunter College that took place at the City University of New York School of Public

Health in Harlem.

The idea that Coca-Cola would fund this kind of research, that researchers would take

money from Coca-Cola to do this kind of research,

and that the university would allow its researchers to take this kind of money shocked the public.

Even Fox News was shocked.

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