Will Large Soda Ban Help New York Obesity Battle? Seems Not

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Will Mayor Michael Bloomberg's idea banning of large sugary drinks in New York City have any impact on obesity rates? Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham do not think so. They say that the focus is too narrow - on just one item - and does not address the big picture in the battle against the obesity epidemic.

Kathryn Kaise, Ph.D., and team in 2009 set out to determine what effect consuming sugar-sweetened drinks might have on body weight. They gathered and examined data from five randomized trials and found that as far as weight reduction was concerned, reducing sugar-sweetened beverage consumption did not make much of a difference to body weight.

The best one can hope to do is fool-proof.

Idiot-proofing is not possible since idiots are so ingenious.

So it goes with the fat.

They are idiots.

The so-called "soda ban" will almost certainly fail as a solution.