Thursday, May 20, 2010 #

No Tax on Diet Soda? Awesome!

Whether you live in New York or not, by now you've probably heard about Governor David Paterson's fight against obesity via creating a new tax for regular soft drinks. But now, in an effort to gain support for his law, Gov. Paterson introduced the idea to eliminate taxes on diet soft drinks.

Personally, I did not exactly agree with an added tax to regular soft drinks even though I don't drink regular drinks. However, I would be all for the elimination of a tax from diet soft drinks.

What do YOU think? Is the elimination of tax on diet drinks and a tax on regular soft drinks a step in the right direction for obesity?

To learn more about these taxes, check out this article.
posted @ Friday, May 21, 2010 9:56 PM | Feedback (0)

The Fattest Cities

Men's Health magazine has once again come out with the list of the fattest cities.

I don't think it's a surprise to anyone that Texas is high up there (if you're an avid Biggest Loser watcher/follower, you'll remember the episode this season that was all about the contestants visiting Texas because it's the fattest city).

The magazine reached their evaluation of the cities by calculating the percentage of people who are overweight with the percentage of people with type 2 diabetes, the percentage of people who haven't exercised in a month, the amount of money spent on food and the number of people who ate fast food more than nine times this month (those are probably all some shocking numbers).

Check out thelist and see where YOUR city is. Are you surprised at your city's ranking?

http://health.msn.com/weight-loss/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100257787

posted @ Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:33 AM | Feedback (0)