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Coke Discloses Millions in Grants for Health Research and Programs

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New submitter erinrivers11 writes: Following criticism that Coke has supported research that plays down the role of soft drinks in the spread of obesity, the company released a list showing nearly $120 million in grants to medical, research and community organizations. The Times reports: "The list, published Tuesday on the companyrsquo;s website, details hundreds of Coke grants, large and small, to a variety of organizations since 2010, including physician groups, university researchers, cancer and diabetes organizations and public parks, and even a foundation for the National Institutes of Health."pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Coke+Discloses+Millions+in+Grants+for+Health+Research+and+Programs%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1G23ODE"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F15%2F09%2F23%2F028242%2Fcoke-discloses-millions-in-grants-for-health-research-and-programs%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/09/23/028242/coke-discloses-millions-in-grants-for-health-research-and-programs?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/09/23/028242/coke-discloses-millions-in-grants-for-health-research-and-programs?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/5fusWOT4g-A" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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