[quote name='GBAstar']Taking steps to ban things that could potentially lead to obesity, with the goal of curbing obesity and the health care burden it creates, is about as sensible and realistic as taking steps to ban things that lead to people being stupid... and uneducated... with the goal of making them smarter so they can contributed more in taxes paid then hand outs received.
Banning large sodas will not have any direct impact (measurable) on making people more healthy---with the goal of lowering the taxpayer burden (since that seems to be where people are taking this discussion).
http://bangordailynews.com/2013/03/16/living/less-educated-hurt-most-by-waiting-to-marry-study-says/
I mean afterall whom do you think is a bigger burden on society?
Those that are obese or those that are uneducated?
Those who are fat and unhealthy or those that have kids they can't support?
The article above makes it sound like if people were more educated they would stop popping out kids they couldn't support. I think that is a more pressing issue.
“Progressives stress the economics, conservatives stress the culture,” said Wilcox. “We say both matter. They both are undercutting the viability of marriage for young adults today.”
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There's no correlation between the two. Two separate issues that are dealt with a lot differently for various reasons.
Money is always thrown at education and it's law everybody has to be schooled, educated and steps are taken to improve education....
So now steps are being taken to prevent obesity...
So really im lost to your argument.
I think a bunch of research and fruitless studies are not really needed. It's abundantly clear there's a whole scale issue, and it's simply getting worse year upon year.
A soda ban may or may not work, i guess if it happens we'll find out. But im pretty sure it'd certainly reduce obesity in projected forecasts.
Mcdonalds etc etc, are another issue. Now we're focusing on soda. After that they may look at other things.
We can talk all we like about people's CHOICE, but the simple fact is, if im thirsty and walking by a store, im more likely to pick up a soda than a water if it's there. If it's not then im not. Right? We don't need no pointless study by some university with nothing better to do to acknowledge this.