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Contact: Ben Klein, National Consumers League,\u00a0benk@nclnet.org<\/a>, (202) 835-3323<\/p>\n Washington, DC- \u00a0The Clinton Global Initiative announced\u00a0this week that\u00a0three of the\u00a0biggest soft drink producers, Pepsi Co, Coca-Cola,\u00a0and Dr Pepper Snapple Group, would aim to\u00a0reduce calories consumed\u00a0from\u00a0sweetened beverages 20 percent\u00a0by 2025.\u00a0While the National Consumers League (NCL) is pleased to learn\u00a0that the soda industry is committed to reducing calorie consumption, this announcement falls short.<\/p>\n \u201cWe appreciate that big soda is acknowledging the many negative consequences of empty calories that contribute to America’s obesity epidemic, but this\u00a0commitment alone isn\u2019t\u00a0nearly\u00a0enough\u00a0to improve the nation\u2019s health.\u201d said Sally\u00a0Greenberg, executive director of NCL. \u201cTo have a\u00a0lasting\u00a0and meaningful positive impact\u00a0on public health, far tougher\u00a0measures are needed such as a national soda tax.\u201d<\/p>\n This decision comes as beverage industry sales for\u00a0both artificially sweetened and regular soft drinks are falling.\u00a0The soft drink producers do not intend to change or reduce the amount of calories in soda, but rather\u00a0plan to\u00a0sell\u00a0smaller portion sizes and increase\u00a0promotion of water and other low calorie\u00a0drinks\u00a0in an effort to curb soft drink calorie consumption. They also plan to promote calorie awareness on vending machines, an action that is required by the\u00a0Affordable Care Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n ###<\/p>\n About the National Consumers League<\/strong><\/p>\n The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America’s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 24, 2014 Contact: Ben Klein, National Consumers League,\u00a0benk@nclnet.org, (202) 835-3323 Washington, DC- \u00a0The Clinton Global Initiative announced\u00a0this week that\u00a0three of the\u00a0biggest soft drink producers, Pepsi Co, Coca-Cola,\u00a0and Dr Pepper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17721,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/17721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}