We Are Making Progress

Marketers are attempting to make unhealthy"Health" Foods
products seem more nutritious forOther foods attempting to bill themselves as
health-conscious shoppers. 7Up, for example, is"healthy" include:
now being billed as "100 percent natural" now thatWrigley's gum, which launched the Wrigley Science
it has been reformulated to remove an artificialInstitute to produce studies indicating that gum
preservative. TV ads will soon show 7UP canschewing helps in dieting, stress reduction and
being picked like fruits.concentration.
A $44-Billion MarketDunkin' Donuts, which sponsored a media event
They are attempting to get a share of the $44touting the studies indicating that caffeine from
billion a year natural and organic food business.the coffee they sell could reduce the risk of
Since 2003, the number of new products makingParkinson's disease.
health claims has increased 44 percent.