Mayor violates first amendment rights, pursuit of happiness, starve the poor

[kbjc72]

two thumbs up!!!!

How about mandatory birth control after you have your SECOND that you can't afford and the rest of us have to pay for?

[Gladys]

Soda tax - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After you read the Soda Tax Link. Read my opinions:


By most accounts[citation needed], the beverage industry has outspent the pro-tax side and succeeded in painting the soda tax as a naked money grab cleverly disguised as a health policy.

(Nutter needs a new tax)
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Studies find that large loads of fructose, like that seen in sugar sweetened beverages, overwhelms the liver’s ability to metabolize the sugar by the normal pathway and the excess is shunted into pathways which result in fat production. The fat packs the liver as well as our waistlines. The fatty liver begins to malfunction and no longer responds normally to insulin, which results in a condition known as insulin resistance. The pancreas tries to compensate by putting out increasing amounts of insulin. The pancreas eventually poops out from overwork. Diabetes results. Unhealthy fats like small dense LDL (low density lipoprotein) and triglycerides are also released into the bloodstream. The unhealthy fats eventually plug up the arteries of the heart leading to heart attacks.

(Must have been a brilliant scientist that wrote this? "POOPS OUT")


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A meta-analysis specifically asking to what extent sugar-sweetned beverages have contributed to the obesity epidemic concluded that: sugar-sweetened beverages account for at least one fifth of the weight gained between 1977 and 2007 in the U.S. population and that actions that are successful in reducing sweetened beverage consumption are likely to have a measurable impact on obesity.

(Meta-analysis studies are never considered for scientific facts)


I can not find any actual human studies that show a relationship of Soda and Obesity.
Someone care to give me a link?
I am talking scientific study, not some second party site quoting a study without a link to an actual human double blind study.
IMHO, Soda has not been scientifically proven unhealthy.

I await any valid evidence.
Thank You

I just gave you link upon link upon link . watch them and if you still don't get it get a tutor.

I love the idea of a soda tax. there is a tax on cigarettes and alcohol, fair is fair.

i think you are a troll.

[H_Bergeron]

Just because the NYC mayor started something, Nutter's got to follow suit?

That's how it looks to me.

People are going to do whatever they want despite rules/laws/suggestions.
And there are bigger fish to fry.

This fits in with his annual budget time ritual of proposing something outlandish and headline grabbing
(which hasn't a snowball's chance of passing) so that he can cram the budget that he really wants through Council
whilst branding disagreement as reeking of "fat cat politics".

Also, this neither the first nor the last time the mayor of our fair city will be taking a page from Bloomberg's book.

[Gladys]

i'm always suspicious when something outlandish is in the news because it usually means you SHOULD be looking in the other direction.