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Originally Posted by Villages PL
As I said above, the issue was heart bypass operations not heart transplants. And this was costing New York City mucho millions of dollars every year. It was a very large significant amount of money. So Mayer Bloomberg and the N.Y.C. health department did what they did (banning trans fats) for 2 reasons. 1) to help tax payers avoid having to pay another tax increase and 2) to help improve health conditions overall.
Sugar doesn't cause heart disease directly but it adds calories to a population that is already 2/3 overweight or obese. And it is the weight issue that brings on a chain of adverse health events that often leads to heart disease among many other diseases.
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Banning soda to be manufactured wouldn't stop that problem. People don't cook at home and are in a huge rush. They work much harder than we did when we were younger because we usually had one person taking care of hearth and home and running errards and taking kids to lessons and sports and washing and even ironing the clothes. People don't even have time to cook and enjoy a decent meal. It is that and not the big soda's that is the problem. People don't have time to live and to spend time doing ordinary things. People don't learn to cook and make cooking a very simple, fun thing to do, rather than a task. The world has changed so much.