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Letter to the Editor (London Free Press):

I was disappointed with the article published May 14 in the London Free Press in which Michael Jacobson of the US Center for Science in the Public Interest sensationally and baselessly targets soft drinks as the only food or beverage that promotes weight gain.

The experts will tell you that no single food causes weight gain or obesity. The solution lies in encouraging healthy active lifestyles that balance calories in to calories out.  In fact, no single food or food ingredient can be held responsible for weight gain - the human body does not differentiate the source of calories consumed.  Rather, the body either uses these calories to produce energy in active people or store them as fat in inactive people.

The recipe for maintaining a healthy weight is to balance calories in to calories out.

Refreshments Canada is the national trade association representing the broad spectrum of brands and companies that manufacture and distribute the majority of non-alcoholic liquid refreshment beverages consumed in Canada.

For more information, please contact:

Justin Sherwood
President
Refreshments Canada

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