Soda Should Be Banned Essay

The governor of New York has recently banned soda in bottles above 16 ounces. This has caused a lot of controversy with some people saying that it’s good and we don’t need huge amounts of soda and we need to start being a healthier country and others are saying it’s taking away our freedom and liberty to chose how to live our life. Unhealthy foods should be banned or reduced everywhere in the U.S. To start with, people in the world seem to be getting more and more obese each day. In the past 28 years obesity in the world went from 600 million in 1980 to 1 billion in 2008. With population continuously growing it is expected to get more obese people, but have 400 million additional people being obese in just 35 years is. America is the most obese industrialized country in the world and ninth in most obese country overall. The next closest industrialized country to us is New Zealand, which has a population of 26.5% of obese people. The U.S is 7.4% more obese than New Zealand with 33.9% of our population being obese. (National Institute of Health) That means every one in three people in the U.S is obese. Obesity rates will only get larger and larger if no one does anything to prevent or slow down obesity. …show more content…
If the government did that they would be protecting us more than taking away our liberty. It would make us live longer and healthier lives. No one plans on being obese and wants to gain a huge amount of weight. Michelle Obama has passed the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act, a law that makes the USDA set a nutritional standard that expands access to healthy lunches. After the law was passed students are eating sixteen percent more vegetables and twenty three percent more fruits at lunch. Ever since this act has been passed childhood obesity rates have leveled our. Schools are having their revenue for school lunches going up by $200 million. Also there is no amendment in the supreme law of this country to take away what food you can’t