{"id":995,"date":"2012-06-01T20:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T01:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/?p=995"},"modified":"2015-10-22T20:19:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T01:19:15","slug":"why-mayor-bloomberg-is-right-about-sugary-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/why-mayor-bloomberg-is-right-about-sugary-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mayor Bloomberg Is Right About Sugary Drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arguments to Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny1.com\/content\/the_call\/the_call_blog\/162229\/the-call-blog--mayor-tries-to-fizzle-out-large--sugary-drinks\">proposed ban on super-sized sugary drinks<\/a> show the ignorance that proves why the ban is necessary. There is no comparison between the health hazards of a large pastrami sandwich and a giant sugary drink (as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com\/watch\/thu-may-31-2012\/drink-different\">Jon Stewart complained<\/a>). Saturated fat isn&#8217;t dangerous, as the blog post linked below explains. Nor does the argument that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny1.com\/content\/top_stories\/162265\/city-marks-nat-l-donut-day-on-heels-of-proposed-sugary-drink-ban\">donuts are dangerous, too<\/a>&#8221; make sense. A large sugary drink is more dangerous than a solid sugary dessert because of the speed with which the sugar hits the liver. Plus the danger isn&#8217;t only obesity &#8211; it&#8217;s heart disease, obesity, cancer, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Most people are unaware of the dangers of sugary beverages &#8211; or the debate from the early 1970s over which dietary factor caused heart disease: sugar or fat (it is sugar, not fat &#8211; Ancel Keys is now widely thought to have been wrong).<\/p>\n<p><b>Read this blog post: <a href=\"http:\/\/normaleating.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/sugar-is-toxic-causes-heart-disease-cancer-more\/\" \/nofollow>Sugar Is Toxic: Heart Disease, Cancer &#038; More<\/a>. It clearly explains the biochemistry of sugar metabolism, and why large-sized sugary beverages are the greatest threat to health of any food.<\/b><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arguments to Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s proposed ban on super-sized sugary drinks show the ignorance that proves why the ban is necessary. There is no comparison between the health hazards of a large pastrami sandwich and a giant sugary drink (as Jon Stewart complained). Saturated fat isn&#8217;t dangerous, as the blog post linked below explains. Nor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/why-mayor-bloomberg-is-right-about-sugary-drinks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Mayor Bloomberg Is Right About Sugary Drinks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylcanter.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}