Cadbury...chocolate company $100 million for the American Diabetes Association

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Dr. Casey Means: "You look at the American acad of pediatrics and like who are their main funders - Mead Johnson who makes formula, the company that makes influenza vaccines, Abbott nutrition which makes formula. These people are funding the organization that cherry picks the research to make our pediatric guidelines. So there's hundreds of thousands of papers that are published every year about the importance of nutrition, exercise and sleep and avoiding pesticides and avoiding plastics in our food, just tens of thousands of papers, every single year. But what goes into the guidelines, which are created by professional organizations like the American Diabetes Association, the American acad of pediatrics who are funded by things like processed food companies, pharmaceutical companies and then of course in the case of ADA, people like Coca-Cola and Cadbury...chocolate company $100 million for the American Diabetes Association...they shouldn't be influencing our diabetes guidelines...we follow this cult of evidence based medicine, which is that we follow the guidelines. But the guidelines cherry pick research from the cannon of scientific literature that is out there..."

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