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NYC Approves Sugary Drink Ban

A ban on selling large-sized sweetened drinks has gotten final approval in New York City.

FOX News Radio’s Jane Metzler reports from New York City:

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He already took on trans fats, now New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg winning approval from the Board of Health on limiting cups and bottles of sugary beverages to 16oz.  To critics who call it government intrusion…

(Bloomberg) “We’re talking about adults and kids who are dying.”

The Mayor says hospitals see evidence of the obesity epidemic first-hand.

(Bloomberg) “We have diabetes that we used to find in 19-year-olds showing up in six-year-olds.  We have 19-year-olds getting diabetes type that used to be in 60-year-olds.”

The limit affects fast food and other restaurants and theaters.  You can still get your big gulp at convenience stores and supermarkets.

Jane Metzler, FOX News Radio.

2 Comments

  1. Jeff

    September 13, 2012 at 10:36 pm

    Fat is the big killer, its already fat and it's always gonna be fat. I lost 70 lbs. in 9 months by merely cutting out high fat foods, milk, etc. I drank a two liter a day of soda, or as much as a gallon of southern style sweet tea in a day and never worried about calories. I also had more energy and only walked about 4 miles a week which probably does little for burning calories.

  2. dwayne

    February 7, 2013 at 8:44 am

    If they ban sweet drinks because of health why not cigarettes because of health?