When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his proposed ban earlier this summer on sodas larger than 16 ounces, I lamented what I thought was a failure of the coverage. I couldn't find any good reporting on...
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When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his proposed ban earlier this summer on sodas larger than 16 ounces, I lamented what I thought was a failure of the coverage. I couldn't find any good reporting on whether or not the ban would do what the mayor wanted--reduce obesity. Surely there must be research on this, I thought, but it wasn't easy to find in the coverage, most of which dealt with whether Bloomberg was being too schoolmarmish.
A couple of weeks later, I looked again, and I still could not find what I wanted to know.
Now a fine piece addressing these questions appears from what I'd consider an unlikely source: James Surowiecki, the economics...
In a previous post, I criticized coverage of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to ban the sale of sugared sodas larger than 16 ounces. None of the stories that I saw told me whether this was...
In a previous post, I criticized coverage of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to ban the sale of sugared sodas larger than 16 ounces. None of the stories that I saw told me whether this was likely to work. Surely, I thought, somebody has done research on this; most coverage dealt with whether it was appropriate for the government to meddle with food choices.
This morning, The New York Times has a front-page story by Winnie Hu discussing Bloomberg's efforts to promote the plan. It makes a minor nod to research by asking Kelly Brownell, the director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University and a prominent obesity researcher, what he thinks of the policy...
New York City Michael Bloomberg is all over the news this morning in the wake of a...
New York City Michael Bloomberg is all over the news this morning in the wake of a press conference yesterday at which he proposed a ban on large soft drinks, sugary fruit drinks and sweetened coffee, in an effort to help curb obesity. The proposed ban would cover any sugary drink larger than 16 ounces. (For those of you who guzzle diet sodas by the quart, there's no reason for concern. Diet drinks are excluded, as are milkshakes and those sickeningly sweet blue alcoholic concoctions with little umbrellas.)
Bloomberg described the ban as an example of "doing something" about the nationwide obesity problem, not merely wringing hands.
The New York City Beverage Association raised the question that I'd like to consider here. Protesting the...
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