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-Land of the Free
Soda War Activists Look to Tobacco as Model
2014-06-07
[An Nahar] Soft drinks should be targeted like tobacco with consumer warning labels that spell out the risk of obesity and other maladies, American advocates of a war on soda say.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest brought together health professionals other experts this week to plot a strategy to turn around public attitudes toward the sugary drinks.
So tobacco is bad. Soda pop is bad. Marijuana is just fine. The head, it spins...
"This is about transparency, telling the truth about these products and let the consumers decide by themselves," said Harold Goldstein, one of the dozens of doctors and other experts who attended the "Soda Summit" Wednesday and Thursday.

At a news conference, Goldstein called for passage of a bill requiring warning labels to be affixed to sugary drink containers.

The bill already passed the state senate in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, at the end of May, and once Governor Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown
... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ...
 signs it, the state will become the first to adopt the rule.

The language is similar to warning labels for cigarettes: "Drinking beverages with added sugar contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay."

"Give people the information at least," said Goldstein. "Once they have the information, then they will be ready for more."

Goldstein and others at the conference, however, stressed that combating consumption of sugary drinks will require multiple approaches.
Including ordering the rest of us to do as they say...
Posted by:Fred

#9  they need to SAVE you, from for Satan

FIFY Glen.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-06-07 16:56  

#8  Can we put warning labels on people that love and support the nanny state?
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-06-07 15:21  

#7  Next up: Warning labels on spoons and forks.
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-06-07 14:09  

#6  I'd love to see some of these clowns try and keep up with me on a thirty mile bike ride...
Posted by: Raj   2014-06-07 12:55  

#5  Any food item containing calories can contribute to obesity. I would suggest a warning on food stamps and any other GIVERnemt program that encourages slothfulness.
Posted by: Airandee   2014-06-07 12:02  

#4  It's like a religion - they need to SAVE you, from Satan, or yourself, or the evil corporations. It gives them purpose for their lives.
I guess the logic is that now that the state is responsible for your health care it needs to make sure you live more healthily. Coming soon - dawn PT runs to breakfast at the communal dining facility.
Posted by: Glenmore   2014-06-07 11:54  

#3  When are they going to put labels on those super-caffeinated power drinks, that taken in quantity have induced heart attacks? That strikes me as a good deal more immediate than diabetes twenty years down the road...

Concern trolls and cause junkies, demonstrating their piety by being ever so much purer than the prols who obviously don't know enough to care.
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-06-07 11:26  

#2  What about Brawndo? Is it going to get warnings too?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2014-06-07 10:28  

#1  and nobody will read the warnings, but these asshats will all pat each other on the back
Posted by: Frank G   2014-06-07 09:40  

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