April 2016

Final figures are in. Personnel at Beverage Digest reported to Marketdata that the retail value of all carbonated soft drinks was $79 billion in 2015 (up 2.1%). The market share accounted for by DIET soft drinks, however,  fell 1.1% to 25%. That translates into a diet soft drink retail market worth $19.75 billion. That’s down […]

November 2015 – The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and groups including The Obesity Society (TOS) and Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), filed a complaint with U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) claiming the 27 states that deny coverage for bariatric surgery are in non-compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA)