[Johnny]

You can get an abortion but you can't buy a Coke®.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/unit...nks-54468.html

Banned in Boston: Sugary Drinks

Mayor Menino says no sales on city property

By Michael Tsang Epoch Times Staff Created: Apr 10, 2011 Last Updated: Apr 10, 2011

BOSTON—It began as a fight against obesity among children and youth, with a 2004 ban on junk food and soda in vending machines in Boston public schools. Mayor Thomas Menino issued an executive order last week to remove sugary beverages from vending machines on all city property. Over the next six months, advertising, sales, and promotion of such beverages will be phased out.

Menino stated in a press release that he wants to “set an example for the city as a whole. … I want to create a civic environment that makes the healthier choice the easier choice in people’s lives, whether it’s schools, worksites, or other places in the community.” He cited the link between drinking high-calorie sweet beverages and rising obesity rates and health care costs.

The city will color-code drinks as red, yellow, or green. The red ones, soon to be banished, are juice and sports drinks with added sugar, cold sweetened coffees and teas, and nondiet sodas and energy drinks. They will be replaced with yellow and green choices. Yellow means 100 percent juice drinks, low-calorie sports drinks, sweetened milk and soy milk, and other low-sugar sweet drinks. Green means bottled water, flavored and unflavored seltzer water, low-fat milk, and unsweetened soy milk. Both yellow and green drinks will be available on city property.

“Many people are unaware that a single, 20-ounce regular soda contains 17 teaspoons of sugar,” said Dr. Nancy Norman, chief medical officer at the Boston Public Health Commission, in a statement marking last summer's Boston campaign encouraging people to give up soda for the season.

An average American consumes more than one-half cup of sugar a day. Sugar-sweetened beverages account for approximately 10 percent of the total calories consumed in the average American diet.

The mayor’s announcement quoted the Boston Public Health Commission, which said that about 63 percent of black adults, 51 percent of Latino adults, and 49 percent of white adult residents in Boston are overweight or obese. According to the commission almost 30 percent of preventable diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers, arthritis, heart attacks, and strokes, are linked to obesity in adults.

[BorBitExatini]

Wait, are you really saying that you believe that women can get an abortion in a Boston public schools, or in City Hall?

[AndyScouchek]

From a vending machine, no less.

[clubcughSheet]

I believe in the freedom to choose and ....

I choose to be obese, give me my damn fructose corn syrup now.