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Business-advocate partnerships for healthier food and beverages

Example of outcomes-based partnerships between advocates and the food and beverage industry.  Corporations see the long-term writing on the wall.  This is progress, but there is so much more they can do to develop and market tasty yet low-calorie & healthy products (excerpted article): ... On Thursday, more than a dozen food companies, including candy maker Mars and convenience chain Cumberland Farms, announced new initiatives with Partnership for a Healthier America, a foundation that Obama chairs and helped found. The initiatives will bring smaller candy bars to checkout aisles and more water to gas stations, among other things. They will also provide a rare bright spot to public health advocates at a time that has seen President Trump’s administration freeze other key parts of the former first lady’s healthy-eating legacy. ... “Washington is Washington, but progress will continue,” said Larry Soler, the chief executive of PHA. “We’re proving the private sector ...