People eat what is in front of them and when entering a grocery store you always see all these advertisements about sweets and sugar and if the government changed it and maybe advertised fruits and vegetables, people would think about fruits and vegetable more and more (Schmidt). Also, I believe that the government should intervene whenever it comes to the public health of their citizens. While I understand the people’s point that government intervention would cause violation of people eating what they want and being free to choose what they want (Bakst). While that is understandable, it is still very wrong. To reduce the obesity rates in the us, the government in some areas enforced the soda tax which would mean that stores would have to pay more and causing customers to pay more which while not perfect, is a start and could lead into good directions (Brownell). While I do understand why people would think that the soda tax might affect the poor neighborhoods, the soda tax while a start is still imperfect and if designed taking in all factors would help the communities because the money from the taxes could be used for a lot of different things (Bowden) and how some research has showed that there is no correlation between soda tax and obesity (Marlow and
People eat what is in front of them and when entering a grocery store you always see all these advertisements about sweets and sugar and if the government changed it and maybe advertised fruits and vegetables, people would think about fruits and vegetable more and more (Schmidt). Also, I believe that the government should intervene whenever it comes to the public health of their citizens. While I understand the people’s point that government intervention would cause violation of people eating what they want and being free to choose what they want (Bakst). While that is understandable, it is still very wrong. To reduce the obesity rates in the us, the government in some areas enforced the soda tax which would mean that stores would have to pay more and causing customers to pay more which while not perfect, is a start and could lead into good directions (Brownell). While I do understand why people would think that the soda tax might affect the poor neighborhoods, the soda tax while a start is still imperfect and if designed taking in all factors would help the communities because the money from the taxes could be used for a lot of different things (Bowden) and how some research has showed that there is no correlation between soda tax and obesity (Marlow and