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    Sean Moloughney, Associate Editor07.01.11
    I was eating Cheerios for breakfast one morning when I realized the box I bought came with a coupon for diapers. “Is my cereal trying to tell me something?” I wondered. At a barbecue recently I noticed the baby pool seemed a little more crowded than it was a year or two ago. Then came a flood of facebook updates. Everywhere I went it seemed someone else was expecting one of those little, expensive bundles of joy. And every time they told me I couldn’t help but think, “I have a coupon for you.”
     
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    The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) responded to the AAP statement, saying in recent years its members have: changed more than 20,000 products to reduce calories, fat, sodium and sugar; pledged to remove 1.5 trillion calories from the food supply by 2015; and applied strict nutrition criteria to advertising. But let’s face it: kids are still unhealthy.
     
    And adults aren’t faring much better either. During the last 30 years, diabetes cases among people 25 years of age and older have doubled to 347 million worldwide, according to research recently published in The Lancet. The U.S. accounted for nearly 25 million diabetics in 2008, almost triple the number from three decades ago. While much of the increase can be attributed to population growth and aging, a significant portion can be linked to changing diets, rising obesity and growing rates of physical inactivity, researchers noted.
     
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