(New York City) Health Board Approves Ban on Large Sugary Drinks

[davidthegnome]

15. .... Just, uh, .....

Wow. You know, I'm a student... and I'll say it, I LOVE large sugary drinks. Sure, it might do some damage - but in the short term it keeps me awake for class. The idea that some idiots are going to "protect" our health by ensuring that large sodas/sugary drinks cannot be sold at restaurants... street carts... or, uh, movie theaters? Is frigging insane. If it were banned altogether, there might be a point to this - but that would be even MORE moronic, which is hard to imagine unless you think of the prohibition - another "Noble Experiment".

Restaurants can sell alcohol in a huge variety of forms. Movie theaters will still sell all kinds of candy and snacks with all kinds of bad fattening bad for you stuff in it. So to suggest that this is somehow going to save lives or improve public health is moronic. People will still drink whatever they please - this stupidity is only ensuring that they won't be able to enjoy doing so at some of their favorite places. I guess we can always let it sit and wait to see if this "noble experiment" works out for the righteous crusaders in their valiant effort to protect Americans from being, uhm, fat.

Maybe for tomorrow's crusade we could try banning Mcdonalds, or Burger King, or maybe we could try banning ice cream from restaurants? Yeah, pretty stupid idea, isn't it?