Advertised claims about performance-enhancing sports products often are not supported by scientifically relevant studies, researchers found. More than half of the sports products reviewed with performance-enhancing claims had no references to studies supporting those claims.
The London Assembly is concerned about Olympic sponsorship from companies that produce products associated with childhood obesity, emphasizing that “high calorie food and drink that are at odds with the Olympian athletic ideal.” Coca-Cola and McDonald’s are lead sponsors of the 2012 Olympics.