To see the above chart full size:”This is what one sip of soda does to your body”

Obesity is Big Business!

Read the good (because it will inspire folks to more awareness, and to defend the ban)/bad news on today’s New York Times. Excerpt and link:

Judge Blocks New York City’s Limits on Big Sugary Drinks:

A state court judge invalidated new restrictions on sweetened beverages on Monday, a day before they were set to take effect, saying the rules were “arbitrary and capricious.”

…The ruling stunned the Bloomberg administration, which was deep into preparations to begin enforcing the ban and had even boasted on Monday that it should be applied nationally as a remedy to rising obesity rates…

For more: This is what one sip of soda does to your body.

Just 20 years (Obesity Map of the USA over the last few decades)

http://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/08/just-20-years/