There's a curious distinction in the uproar between scandals in tech and in other sectors. One obvious thought is that I'm mostly finding myself in tech-oriented crowds, thus I find them more exhilarating . I have to admit to myself that when I read this headline I wasn't the least surprised. I mean "of course they do that, they're old school! McDonalds, pepsi, tobacco, they're all money grubbing and soulless!"
Apparently I actually believe tech companies are capable of changing and somewhat try to do good. Perhaps because I have an actual (though imaginary) relationship to the people who run google/apple/msft. The fact that a lot of you guys work there probably enforces that; I do not and will never know anyone working for Coca Cola, for whatever reason.<p>I wonder if that's two different, calculated strategies employed by the different sectors respectively.
Title is inaccurate: Coca-Cola isn't working with nutritionists, they are working with <i>dietitians</i>. Literally anyone can call themselves the former, but the latter requires a bachelor's degree with an accredited nutrition curriculum, passing a registration exam and doing an internship at an approved facility.<p><a href="http://eatrightdc.org/dietitian-vs-nutritionist/" rel="nofollow">http://eatrightdc.org/dietitian-vs-nutritionist/</a>
Bah. What a clickbait title. If you consider blogger a "nutritionist" then you deserve what you get. The Star Tribune is guilty of posting the exact same level of crap as the nutritionist bloggers. Any service which generate revenue primarily by generating clicks must be treated with an abundance of caution.
This has been a common practice by many of the big brands. For eg. You can watch John Oliver's Last Night with John Oliver on Tobacco and on doctors. Companies pays doctors to recommend medicines.
I have a feeling every time something is called a "snack" in headlines like this it's probably pretty bad for you.<p>My mother never allowed us to eat chips or other junkfood as snacks during the day. We ate them on special occasions (e.g. watching TV on saturday night).<p>If we were hungry, we could eat apples or other fruit that was around.<p>In retrospect a good habit to have.
They should team up with these guys<p><a href="http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1841910,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1841910,0...</a>
If you're dumb enough to believe a beverage containing phophoric acid (commonly used in fertilizer) with a PH of ~2.8 is healthy, than you deserve it.