Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple 1141
An anonymous reader writes "NYC residents may soon be unable to buy big gulps. In an effort to curb obesity, New York City's Mayor Bloomberg is seeking a ban on oversized sodas in restaurants, movie theaters and stadiums officials said on Wednesday. 'Obesity is a nationwide problem, and all over the U.S., public health officials are wringing their hands saying, "Oh, this is terrible,"' Mayor Bloomberg said. 'New York City is not about wringing your hands; it's about doing something. I think that's what the public wants the mayor to do.'"
Re:How is this legal? (Score:5, Informative)
It's all good until the fatties want free healthcare.
Re:Why? (Score:2, Informative)
Why would the government get to decide how fat I get to be?
Seems like that should be my choice.
If the government is paying for your health care, that choice is no longer yours.
Re:Get a refill.. (Score:4, Informative)
Its basic psychology, if given larger containers, people consume more.
Cornell University did a study in a Philadelphia movie theater with stale popcorn. Given the larger containers, people still ate more of it, even though it was like eating styrofoam.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16053812 [nih.gov]
Re:Get a refill.. (Score:5, Informative)
it is.. but it's a specific offering by 7-11 (convenience store chain)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7-Eleven [wikipedia.org]
Among 7-Eleven's offerings are private label products, including Slurpee, a partially frozen soft drink introduced in 1967,[15] and the Big Gulp introduced in 1980[15] that packaged soft drinks in large cups ranging in size from 20 to 64 US fluid ounces (0.59 to 1.9 liters).
absurd.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Double_big_gulp.jpg [wikipedia.org]
Re:Get a refill.. (Score:1, Informative)
Are you conspiracy theorists so dense that even logical things are now conspiracies too? Go out and run. Your country is full of fat fucks and if it takes a law to solve it, then so be it. Stop filling hospitals with your fat ass.
Re:Get a refill.. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Educate first. (Score:4, Informative)
there is another huge problem with what parts of this subject we choose to educate about. Apparently diet sodas are given an exemption here. The amount of healthy that you receive from a diet soda is pretty much nil. Every time I have seen a mention of these types of laws, they always say the full sugared versions are the problem that need to be taxed or banned, but then allowing diet will just have everyone switch to a giant diet soda, and there will be very little gained. If you want to increase health, drink water, not any form of soda.
Re:Carbonated? (Score:3, Informative)
That need not be tiresome at all - learn to cook and expand your horizons in terms of what vegetables & meats you've tried. You could eat different vegetables every night for a month and not have a repeat. You can prepare all kinds of meat in all kinds of different (and quite tasty) ways.
Instead of just arbitrarily limiting carbs in some foolish Atkins-style diet (it's a fad - it's NOT sustainable, as the diet itself acknowledges, with its cycling phases), go learn about Glycemic Index as it relates to food.
A few easy to remember (but surprisingly hard to follow, if you have no self discipline) rules to dramatically improve your health:
1) Focus on low glycemic index foods.
2) Learn to cook, and make your own meals as much as humanly possible. Eating out should be a rare luxury, not a daily occurrence.
3) Get an hour of physical activity - even if it's just a leisurely stroll - every day.
4) If you think you're hungry, drink a glass of water first. People often confuse "thirsty" with "hungry."
5) Drink water. Limit non-water beverages to 1 cup of coffee and/or 1 glass of alcohol a day. Sodas are a rare treat, like dessert - not a thrice-daily beverage.
6) Get adequate sleep, so you won't have to keep yourself awake by jacking up your blood sugar and caffeine levels in the afternoon.
7) Try to keep your food as close to it's "natural" (harvested) state as possible - breading & deep frying your chicken should be rare; corn on the cob beats popchips by a country mile. Apples are better than apple juice. Oranges are better than orange juice. Lean steak is better than extruded pink slime in a burger shape.
Re:The public are sheep (Score:4, Informative)
The saying you are probably looking for is:
Re:WE would be nothing of the sort... (Score:5, Informative)
We never had any uprisings back then....
Seriously? Are you just completely ignorant of US labor history?