Posted on 09/17/2009 5:01:08 PM PDT by Baladas
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The California lawmaker who spearheaded a high-profile anti-obesity effort across the country's most populous state is now training his sights on sugar-sweetened drinks.
Sen. Alex Padilla, who led a campaign requiring big restaurant chains to disclose calories in meals, said on Thursday he planned to hold hearings in November on the link between soda consumption and obesity.
The announcement from Padilla -- who chairs the California Senate's Select Committee on Obesity and Diabetes -- coincides with the release of a study that shows nearly two-thirds of children aged 12 to 17 gulp down at least one sugar-sweetened beverage daily.
According to the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, 62 percent of children aged 12 to 17, and 41 percent of children aged 2 to 11, drink at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day.
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CA hasn’t met a tax it didn’t like. This state is filled with goofy tax crazed politicians. And, they are broke and can’t figure out how to reduce spending.
So his claim to fame is having restaurants publish the calories of meals.
Like it’s too damn hard for individuals to figure out, “Hmmm, you know that chicken fried steak just may have a few more calories than the salad.”
I guess the people who drink sodas will learn the pain that tobacco smokers now bear.
Hey, lets not stand in the way of personal freedom! /s
The Constitution as living and breathing as it is, states that lawmakers will DICTATE what personal freedoms can be sought after all.
How about they establish a link between retarded schools producing retarded people with little to no impulse control, unable to make sound decisions for themselves or their health?
Oh, it's a "Select" committee, so it's OK... /s
OMG! Next thing CA will tell me is the air makes me fat. Or retain water. Or something else.
Well, cigarettes and alcohol have pretty much been taken and abused by other politicians so give him a break.
After all he is just doing the work of the people in a free society right?
Think big.....CO2 via breathing...
Ah, but isn’t corn syrup used to sweeten sodas and won’t he run afoul of the corn lobby if he interferes with their profits????
So good to know that they’re solving the really insidious problems this country faces. Everything else is just so insignificant.
CO2. Global warming through breathing.
Sounds like a new commercial, like the better living through chemistry.
California has money to spend on idiotic hearings?
As a Californian I second that.
Why don’t they see the link between obesity and dumbing down or elimination of PE classes?
Television commercial fodder!
NO but China does and the retailer in Washington D.C. has the printing presses to make it happen.
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