New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks

[jeff47]

58. They aren't getting obese on sugared drinks either.

They're getting obese on lack of activity and high-calorie food, which includes sugared drinks. Those same health risks happen even if you're thin, if you have no physical activity.

Yet Bloomberg isn't demanding more PE in schools, which again would be far more effective.

Instead, he's saying problems will be magically solved if we just cut one food. He sounds just like a late-night diet infomercial. And if his plan is enacted, it will inevitably fail. Which will then cause people to say "fuck it, I'll just eat whatever". Just like when fad diets fail.

Now you've got the same, or worse, public health issue, and you've weakened political will to do anything about it.

"Doing something" for the sake of doing something is moronic. If you're going to do something, make it effective.