Ms. HARRISON: We think that there is a subtle message there that children can eat things like sweets, soft drinks and candy and fast and convenience foods and not raise their risk of being overweight.

NPR: Kids Have Easy Access to Junk Food

It seems that the use of (heavily subsidized) corn as a cheap universal feed for chickens, for cows, and even for fish, not to mention the corn products that seep into candy, soft drinks, cheese, and almost everything else, has made that particular package of starch nearly inescapable.

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Ms. HARRISON: So we're really looking at a marketing landscape for children that consists of candy, sweets and soft drinks and convenience foods and a little bit of cereal.

NPR: Kids Have Easy Access to Junk Food

Ms. HARRISON: When we look at all the advertisements together, candy, sweets, soft drinks and fast and convenience foods make up over 80 percent of all of the foods that were advertised.

NPR: Kids Have Easy Access to Junk Food

Though the 101 XS' soft lines and plastic body don't provide much eye candy, we must say the device feels very good in the hand.

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It begins with the sugarcane pulp, which is processed into various forms: from the liquid sugar used to make soft drinks, to the more syrupy sugar used to make hard candy, VHP sugar for exportation, refined and granulated sugar.

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Just like a 4-year-old doesn't want to be lectured on candy, 60-year-olds don't want to be told how big their soft drinks can be.

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As a nation, consumption of candy has increased by 50 percent between 1980 and 1995, and in the past 25 years, soft drink consumption has doubled, according to a study published this year in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

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