I read it today. 2007, 1 in 8 New Yorkers had diabetes. Today, 1 in 2 is suffering from obesiety, which also produces high costs to the health system.
I claim that white refined sugar does more damage to the health system and people's health, than tobacco or alcohgol or drugs. Beside salt (in to huge quanties) and bad fats, it is one of the three major poisons you can legally buy in supermarkets today. Where the problem is not so much the substance in itself (although white sugar NEVER is healthy or needed by your body, the body naturally needs other forms of sugars), but the immense overdose by which it is consumed.
So, for once I must agree with this food regulation. If you drink soft drinks in huge quantities, then this is a problem. For your body. And for the finances of the health system. And the people needing to watch you when you are too fat - from some size on it is no pleasant view anymore, really. From some size on, it is an offence to the eye.
Damn, now I said something unpolite again. I'm so sorry.
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