Argumentative Essay: The Soda Ban

Soda banning is one of the most debatable and controversial topics in the country. One of the questions is should soda be banned or limited? If we banned it, we will save people from the ramifications of their health. If we limited it, we are taking away a citizen's right to drink whatever they want whenever they please. The biggest question is our freedom worth millions of people of dying because of something that could have been prevented early on? Soda ban is the best way to eradicate obesity in the country. We should also ban drinking diet sodas because it is way more dangerous than regular soda. It will lower the statistics of diabetes, cancer, and death because of the decrease of sugar in the body. The less sugar Americans consume the more time is added on their lifeline. According to foodrevolution.org, soda increases diabetes risk; in 2016 a Harvard Medical School had conducted a study proving that one or two sugary drinks will increase your chances of type II diabetes by 25%. The more you drink sugary drinks like soda the more chances you will develop a serious condition like diabetes. Even though people want to ban sodas for being the reason for diseases …show more content…
In 2013, a New York state judge turned down the ban because it doesn’t make sense if the ban wasn’t evenly enforced. It needed to include all high risks drinks. If they do agree with the ban then it would only ban sodas, it doesn’t stop people from drinking sugary sport drinks and sweetened fruit juices. The ban will still make sense even though it doesn’t include diet sodas and fruit juices. Fruit juice is healthier for you than soda because it has more juice than high fructose corn syrup. If we start the soda ban then we can help people to have self-control because it will make people stop putting chemicals in their bodies where they think they need