Junk food getting tobacco treatment

The Baltimore Sun

Sometimes, it takes a crisis to identify a problem.

But to take a problem and build it into a sweeping social movement that can change public policy, experts say, more than a crisis is needed. That's when a lawsuit will do just fine, too - as well as cold, hard science, well-known public figures, legislative action, widespread publicity and positive economic opportunities for key players in the battle.

And yesterday, when the nation's largest beverage manufacturers said they would stop selling nondiet sodas to most public schools, it was an important victory for the nascent movement against obesity - one that triggers memories of how anti-tobacco forces began winning one small battle after another in their war.

Will the health police take on the dairy farmers?? Dairy products aren't reallly good for adults trying to watch their weight.