Speech: Big Gulps in the Big Apple

over 50% of Ameri seats consume at least 1 honeyed revel a mean solar day. I would imagine everyone in the hearing has been to a fast-food restaurant at least once or consumed a sugary drink over 16 oz at the movies and the law that creates this divulge immediately relates to fast food places and the movies. What if I told you that in impudently York city it is illegal to buy a 20 oz Coca-Cola at McDonalds or 7-11. I am addressing this way out because this very law may one day wreak its way down from New York urban center to Washington D.C. The shun on soda pops over 16 oz in New York City is unjust in that it goes against the Life, Liberty, and search of Happiness  promise on which the unify States was built and does non address the real issue it was designed to effect (Jefferson).\nProponents of the soda ban such as New York Citys Mayor Michael Bloomberg grapple that sugary drinks over xvi ounces should be banned because of the some wellness risks related to the intake of sugary drinks. A hardly a(prenominal) of the diseases that have been proven to be caused by drinking cushioned drinks are type dickens diabetes, heart disease, and osteoporosis (Harvard). Additionally, check to the Framingham knocker study a someone who drinks one or more than soft drinks a day is almost two clock as likely to beget type two diabetes. This poses a serious threat to the health of Americans because the average American consumes four-spot soft drinks a week (Harvard). The affects of diabetes are serious and can lead to pre-mature death. These affects are twain short bound and farsighted term, but the long term effects such as the development of heart disease, laid-back blood pressure, loss of vision, and kidney nonstarter can be fatal. \nFurthermore, according to the Center of Disease examine around 600,000 deaths in the fall in States were reported to be caused by heart disease. That is one in every four deaths ( center of attention)! Heart disease is such a problem in the United States that the federal government spends round 109 billion dol...