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  • August 2008

    • Italian Sodas Sparkle With Real Sugar

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 9, 08 3:03 PM CDT

      Italian Sodas Sparkle With Real Sugar

      (Newser) - If your local bar pours tonic water from a gun—that plastic gizmo that dispenses sodas—it's time to seek a new watering hole, writes drink-maven Eric Felten in the Wall Street Journal. Good bartenders are hip to tonics' latest trend: Italian soda. Made with real cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup, and retaining the traditional bitter taste of cinchona bark, Italian tonics are now sparkling in America. More »

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      alcohol  • bars  • soda

    • Shoppers No Longer Sweet on Corn Syrup

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 2, 08 5:22 PM CDT

      Shoppers No Longer Sweet on Corn Syrup

      (Newser) - High-fructose corn syrup still sweetens everything from soda to sauces, but its makers fear that sour days lie ahead. The Corn Refiners Association has launched a marketing campaign to win back consumers who claim the sweetener is less healthy than cane sugar and just as caloric. Corn syrup's detractors even blame it in part for the nation’s obesity epidemic. More »

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      soda  • sugar  • sugar substitutes  • sugar cane  • corn syrup

  • July 2008

    • Dr Pepper Ads Want You to Sip, Not Guzzle

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 28, 08 11:31 AM CDT

      Dr Pepper Ads Want You to Sip, Not Guzzle

      (Newser) - Facing flagging sales, 123-year-old Dr Pepper is capitalizing on “scientific” research that suggests it tastes better when you drink it slowly, the Wall Street Journal reports. Dr Pepper’s marketers are launching a campaign using “fake doctors to deliver this quasi science,” says an ad exec. Basketballer Dr J and Dr Frasier Crane of Frasier fame are touting the research in new commercials, saying "Slower is better: Trust me I'm a doctor." More »

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      soda  • beverages  • Kelsey Grammer  • Dr Pepper  • market-research

  • May 2008

    • New Soda Sizes Aim to Cap Fizzling Sales

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 2, 08 3:38 AM CDT

      New Soda Sizes Aim to Cap Fizzling Sales

      (Newser) - Coke and Pepsi are testing new bottle sizes in an effort to boost deflating soda sales, reports the Wall Street Journal . Coke pulled 20-ounce bottles of Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Coke and other drinks from Virginia convenience store shelves this week and re-stocked them with 16-ounce and 24-ounce bottles. Pepsi plans to try out 12-ounce and 16-ounce bottles. More »

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      obesity  • Pepsi  • Coca Cola  • soda  • soft drink bottles

  • March 2008
  • September 2007

    • Additives Do Make Kids Hyper

      Guardian (UK)  |  Sep 6, 07 6:39 AM CDT

      Additives Do Make Kids Hyper

      (Newser) - Adding fuel to a long-simmering debate, a British study has found that additives in sweets and soft drinks can indeed produce hyperactivity and disruptive behavior in children. The findings were so dramatic that the British government is issuing guidelines warning parents of kids with behavioral problems to avoid foods containing the additives, the Guardian reports. More »

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      health  • children  • food  • science  • junk food  • soda  • candy  • behavior

  • July 2007

    • Soda—Even Diet—Is Linked to Heart Risk

      HealthDay News  |  Jul 24, 07 5:37 AM CDT

      Soda—Even Diet—Is Linked to Heart Risk

      (Newser) - People who drink more than one soda a day—even diet soda—face an increased risk of heart trouble, a new study has found. Consumption of  soda was linked to metabolic syndrome, a group of symptoms that  are risk factors for heart disease, in a new analysis of the 6,000 participants in the Framingham Heart Study. More »

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      health  • heart disease  • junk food  • soda

  • May 2007

    • Ex-Coke Employee Gets 8 Years

      Associated Press  |  May 23, 07 2:25 PM CDT

      Ex-Coke Employee Gets 8 Years

      (Newser) - A former secretary for Coca-Cola was sentenced to eight years in federal prison Wednesday for conspiring to steal trade secrets—documents and samples of unlaunched products—and then sell them to Pepsi. Joya Williams was nabbed after the FBI traced a letter soliciting a kickback from Pepsi, sent by one of her accomplices in May 2006. More »

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      FBI  • Pepsi  • Coca Cola  • soda

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