Medical News Article on Obesity

Mayor Bloomberg: Health Crusader or Nanny State Despot?

2012 JUL 2 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Diabetes Week -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to bar restaurants, movie theaters, sports arenas, food carts and bodegas from selling sodas and other sugary drinks in servings larger than 16 ounces; he believes that this ban will signal an effective way to fight obesity in a city that spends billions of dollars a year on weight-related health problems.

To many, this proposal seems like an authoritarian, nanny state mandate. Why target sugary drinks, when they are just a small part of a seemingly insurmountable problem' And why attempt to restrict consumer choice in the process' But...

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