A long debated soda tax, since 2011, is being proposed by Mayor Jim Kenny on Thursday, March 3, 2016. The tax of three cents per ounce of sugary beverages is estimated to bring over $400 million over five years for various city projects. The plan for the estimated revenue from the tax is proposed to help rebuild parks and recreation centers, develop more jobs and bring universal pre-K to the area. There is also plans for funds to be put into the city's pension system, helping to level out the city's billion dollar deficit. According to a recent article, the American Beverage Association (ABA) is "gearing up" to sway the city council to vote against the tax. To learn more about this movement, click here. Share this on Twitter: Soda Tax discussions bubble up in Philly ...
A new study revealed that a natural sugar called trehalose helped prevent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)in mice. Dr. Brian DeBosch, MD, Ph.D., a pediatric gastroenterologist found that Trehalose, a natural sugar found in plants and insects, may help combat the toxic levels of fat that can build up in the liver. Mice in the study also lost fat, and had lower cholesterol, fatty acids, and triglycerides, but Dr. Debosch warns that there is still research needing to be done to address whether the mice lost bone or muscle mass as well. Dr. Debosch encourages his patients to always avoid foods like sugar-sweetened beverages that have added fructose as consumption of sugars, especially fructose found in junk food and sodas, can lead to fatty liver disease, diabetes, high ...
Many restaurants offer the same sugary beverages on kids meals with unhealthy options like high-sugar sodas, lemonades and juices. Now Maryland lawmakers are considering a bill to help ban soda's and other sugary drinks from kids menu's in all restaurants. Wanting to help parents and kids make the healthy choice the easy choice, the bill would change kids menus to offer healthier choices like water, low-fat milk or 100 percent juices at regular price. "The choice that comes with 80 percent of restaurant kids' meals is a soda or a fruit punch, and in those cases families are always welcomed to ask for a healthy drink, but it sometimes costs $2 or $3 more to get a milk," Robi Rawl, the Sugar Free Kids Maryland Executive Director said in a recent article. According to the Center ...
Join Anna Kortright, a nutritionist with Eat Smart New York (ESNY) as she explains how much sugar is in common beverages. Learn to calculate the sugar content in food at the "Rethink Your Drink" presentation at the Morrisville Public Library on Wednesday, Feb. 24th at 1 pm. Rethink Your Drink presentation helps consumers understand how much sugar is in their daily beverages, helping to encourage everyone to think about how much sugar is in your daily beverages. Attendees can play a fun game to estimate sugar levels in various beverages and learn healthier alternatives to sugary beverages. Also available are free samples of flavored water or cider. To learn more, click ...
Local health and community leaders are encouraging people to drink more water through a new health campaign called, Live Sugar Freed. This new campaign is a pilot project of "A Healthy America"- a national movement to help prevent health problems by using the power of media for prevention. The goal is of the campaign is to help lower rates of obesity and diabetes in the tri-cities region in Tenn., where, according to a recent article, over one in eight adults have diabetes, and where sugary beverages are consumed more than once on a daily basis. Sugary-sweetened beverages are shown to increase the risk of developing type two diabetes and other health risks like heart disease. The Live Sugar Freed Campaign has sent the message of water as the healthier choice, throughout the ...
More countries are taking notice of the health risks associated with consumption of sugary drinks and are taxing sugary beverages, currently Chile, France, Hungary and Mexico have taxes on sugary drinks. Now more countries are taking notice, including Indonesia, India and the Philippines. Asian nations are looking towards a sugared beverage tax to help curb high rates of obesity and diabetes, reported a recent article. Indonesia originally vetoed a "luxury tax" on sugary drinks, however now an economic adviser recommended India levy a forty percent tax on sugared drinks, and soft drink companies are noticing. An estimation from Euromonitor showed the soft drink industry generates around 18 billion dollars in Asian nations, and media reports show how soft drink companies are ...
Pediatrician Dr. Alejandro Clavier is working on reversing diabetes and childhood obesity for his Latino patients at Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago. In a recent article, Dr. Clavier says,"I tell my patients that if they can remember one thing, remember to drink water," he said. Dr. Clavier explains to his patients and their families the harm of sugary drinks and encourages them to only have water and homemade juices with no sugar available for the kids at home. Latino kids experience a higher risk for diet-related diseases like diabetes, and studies show that about 74 percent of Latino children have had a sugary drink by age two. Dr. Clavier encourages healthier foods in Latino homes, telling families to choose water and to remember that nothing is worth sacrificing their ...
To help bring awareness to the impacts that sugar can have on health risks such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity, a group of organizations is challenging Lincoln County residents to cut sugar out of their daily diets. The month-long educational efforts are being led by the Lincoln County Oral Health Coalition, in coordination with various other dental and medical partnerships, hoping to ensure the community to rethink their drinks and diets and increases oral and dental health. The Health Department offers the following tips to help residents decrease sugar consumption: First up Rethink your drink. Sugary beverages such as soda, juice, flavored milk and energy drinks contain an average of 10 teaspoons of sugar per serving.
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A move in the right direction for healthier kids menus, the fast food chain Jack-in-the-Box, is taking soda and sugary beverages like Hi-C punch and lemonade off of their kids' menu. The new kids' menus offering healthier beverage options will take place in all 2200 of the chain's locations nationwide. Groups like Moms Rising and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has worked with parents across social media and advocacy groups to help encourage these changes towards healthier beverage options and less promotion of sugary beverages in restaurant chains across the country. More is needed to be done to help Latino kids see healthier options as the easier and more appealing choice, as studies show Latino kids are advertised sugary beverages and unhealthy snack ...
