Court upholds ruling striking down NYC's ban on large sugary drinks

[koalabear]

A New York appeals court has upheld a ruling striking down New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest health push: his controversial ban on large sugary drinks.

The ban, which would have prohibited the sale of sodas and other sugary beverages larger than 16 ounces by restaurants and city eateries, was an illegal overreach of executive power, the state appeals court ruled Tuesday, upholding a lower court decision in March that struck down the law.

The law "violated the state principle of separation of powers," the First Department of the state Supreme Court's Appellate Division said in a unanimous decision.

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[phrodeau]

Doesn't matter. People got the message.

Meanwhile, you've been putting on a few pounds. Better switch to diet soda.

 

[koalabear]

Doesn't matter. People got the message.

Meanwhile, you've been putting on a few pounds. Better switch to diet soda.

Why switch to something I never drink any way yellow-neck-soda-jerk

 

[KRCummings]

Good. It was a bullshit law.

 

[chillywilly2]

Those big sodas make me pee too much...they should be illegal

 

[miles]

Bloomberg's next idea will be to ban straws.

 

[phrodeau]

Why switch to something I never drink any way yellow-neck-soda-jerk

So a ban wouldn't affect you one little bit.

Why be such a whiny bitch about it then?

 

[koalabear]

So a ban wouldn't affect you one little bit.

Why be such a whiny bitch about it then?

^^Says the lil whiny yellow-neck.

 

[KRCummings]

It has been recently suggested that diet drinks are worse for you than sugar ones because it fools the body which then has trouble properly processing sugar.
Makes sense.
What doesn't make sense is banning the amount of a pop a person can buy when that same person can walk into a store in that same city and buy a keg of beer. I guess beer bellies and alcoholism are ok.

 

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[koalabear]

It has been recently suggested that diet drinks are worse for you than sugar ones because it fools the body which then has trouble properly processing sugar.
Makes sense.
What doesn't make sense is banning the amount of a pop a person can buy when that same person can walk into a store in that same city and buy a keg of beer. I guess beer bellies and alcoholism are ok.

The human body runs on sucrose not fructose. So where does the fructose end up.

 

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[koalabear]

Yeah well it's a free country, at least for a while longer. It's none of Bloomberg's business how much people consume.

King Bloomberg to you.

 

[phrodeau]

The human body runs on sucrose not fructose. So where does the fructose end up.

Don't even try to be scientific. You aren't up to it.

Sucrose separates in digestion to glucose and fructose.