  urlLink The Observer | Focus | America stirs up a sugar rebellion : "One of those who saw the intensive lobbying efforts at first hand is Dr Pekka Puska, who was head of non-communicable diseases at the WHO until he left to run Finland's leading public health institute. 'After we produced the 916 report, the lobbying was quite extraordinary, particularly when they threatened to withdraw US financial support to WHO,' recalled Puska. 'We had done everything possible to be transparent, to be fair and rigorous, and we held meetings around the world on it. Ours was a balanced road-map to help individual nations decide how they could combat this trend. Every third person in the world has cardiovascular disease - how can we stand by and not try to do something? ' The decision by the US government to fight the global strategy has come as a major shock to many experts in the field. Bruce Silverglade, of the US health campaign group Centre for Science in the Public Interest, said that the influence of 'Big Sugar' in the about-turn was obvious. " 
