This Is The Chart That Frightens The Soda Companies

I say tax junk food as well. There are too many fatties waddling across this country.

we need a Sugar Party. This is nonsense; children are fat because they don't get off their asses all day. Why not have an obesity tax instead. You can make a lot more, since more people are getting fatter, and as far as health goes,if we really do care, this will certainly incentivize people to lose weight!

How about we start by ending govt subsidies for the corn farmers so at least the HFCS will go up to a fair market value - which they can then pass on to the cost of goods.

Two studies on soda, one on HFCS (yes, there is some evidence it's worse thant sugar)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20219526
Rats fed HFCS were significantly more obese than those fed table sugar, including developing unhealthy belly fat and having bad triglyceride profiles. This is more shocking as the amount of HFCS used was less than half that used in soda. While table sugar is still not good for you, HFCS may be much worse.

This study has not been done in humans. I don't mean this as a way of saying it's just a rat study, but as in THIS HASN"T BEEN DONE IN PEOPLE AND 40% OF OUR SWEETENERS ARE THIS STUFF AND WE DON"T FRIGGIN KNOW THE HARM. Sorry, I hate all caps too, but I find this alarming. So we really need more research on the topic.

Another study seeing blood pressure going down an average of two points per every less can of soda per day.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.911164v1

One reason children have weight problems is fear. Parents today watch TV news, where every newscast emphasizes that the world is filled with creeps who prey on children who dare to be away from home without adult guards (parents). So, parents limit their children to supervised play or indoor play, which usually means video games.

Children used to play outdoors, with only casual supervision by adults. Play means fun. Fun is what all children want. But, if you can't venture outdoors without a parent tagging along, you can't have vigorous play exercise.

So, let's prohibit local TV news from broadcasting "news" based entirely on fear. How about a fear tax?

how about taxing all junk food? we tax cigs and booze because it hurts our health; why not junk food?

how about "no tax" on basketballs, bikes, soccer balls...you know, things that you have to be active to use.

Wow, these health stories always bring out the cuckoo birds. The HFCS scare stories are generally leveled by the same wackos who think aspartame causes every ailment under the sun.

The problem with U.S. obesity levels is a mixture of massive calorie intake, and too little energy output.

37 calories is nothing; especially for the morbidly obese.

These foods are only problems in the hands of people who overindulge. Treating them like poisons is not going to drive home any message. It sounds hysterical.

Oh, and please, vaccinate your children.

I used to drink 6-8 cans of pepsi a day (yup, 1000 calories each and every day). Three years ago I gave it up cold turkey, not because of my weight (which was not a problem), but my teeth. What I'm saying is I have soda cred.

I'm also a liberal and a democrat, but I think taxing soda is a bad idea with limited effectiveness that would only reinforce the meme that the government is meddling in things it has no business meddling in.

If they wanted to motivate people to make the right choices and also help limit the government's health care liability, there should be a deductible based on a simple measure of a person's fitness -- percent body fat and resting heart rate. Drop your fat or drop your resting heart rate and the deductible goes down.

This could be done to raise revenue, but no one will lose weight from it.

I drink hardly any soda, but I find that if I try to cut down on chocolate, I eat more cheese; and so on.

People who drink a lot of soda may drink slightly less, but will make it up by eating or drinking other sweet stuff.

We all have our needs/craving for the sweet, the fat, the salty.

The only way to lose weight is have the will to cut down on total calories and increase exercise.

Maybe the USDA can fund some research on will power, LOL.

If they're concerned about weight gain, why aren't they taxing diet sodas? Several recent studies have shown a link between diet soda consumption and weight gain because the artificial sweeteners stimulate hunger. http://www.fooducate.com/blog/2010/01/03/three-reasons-to-rethink-that-diet-coke-youre-about-to-drink/

I don't get your point.

Sucrose is split by the body (sucrase enzymes) into fructose and glucose. Fructose is the problem as the body can not handle it easily, with the liver having to break it down. One consumes almost the same amount of fructose whether you are eating an equal amount of sugar or HFCS. They are both equally bad. It is the amount of fructose consumed that is the issue, not the type.

It's not totally clear, but the article seems to be saying that a 20% tax on soda will result in a 20% reduction in consumption. I find that hard to believe.

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