<div dir="ltr">Public health scientists and a government committee working on nutritional advice receive funding from the very companies whose products are widely held to be responsible for the obesity crisis, an investigation by The BMJ reveals today.<div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​David Stuckler, professor of political economy and sociology at Oxford University, says the engagement of companies such as Coca-Cola with the work of public health organisations "falls into the category of efforts to crowd out public regulation, to try to weaken public health by working with it".</div><div><br><a href="http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-bmj-reveals-network-links-health.html">http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-bmj-reveals-network-links-health.html</a></div></div></div>