Argumentative Essay: Big Soda Ban

Ban Big Sodas
This article is talking about a mayor banning beverages larger than 16 oz. at restaurants, sports arenas and movie theaters. The reason this mayor wants to ban large sodas is because he is afraid for all of New York’s health. That’s a good thing because a lot of us don’t know what we drink and eat most of the time. We just eat our food we don’t even bother to look what’s really in side such as calories, fats and oils in our food. This Mayor is doing New York a huge favor by banning large sodas. He’s helping everyone in New York about their health but people of New York doesn’t see that. There are people who are trying to not let him pass this law because some of them probably drink 16 oz. every day of once a week or twice a week or even more.
New York’s City Mayor Michael Bloomberg who has a reputation for taking aggressive steps to improve city resident’s health. This guy is trying to make people get healthier and make them not be obese and overweight and let them be healthy all they want and some people are just not ready for that. New Yorkers,” Liz Berman, the coalition’s chairman,

said in the statement. “We are smart enough to make our own decisions about what to eat and drink”. Liz is on the people’s side that doesn’t want large sodas to be banned. Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants us to not drink 16 oz. each week or once in a while.
The people who want to be healthy can stay healthy by drinking water each day but when you drink 16oz.

you are on the wrong path a 20 oz. serving of Coke contains 240 calories, compared with 200 calories in a 16oz. size; for people who drink a soda a day or a week, That can add up to 14,600 calories a year. So you can gain 4lbs of weight gain each year if you continue to drink 16oz. a day or even twice a week. There are companies that are mad about this because it can make their business bad and make others better because they can simply not sell 16oz. of soda to a individual but, they probably don’t even realize that each time they sell a product they are making them gain weight and making them unhealthy. These companies don’t care about your health they just care about making money and moving on while we are over here drinking and eating stuff that’s not good for

us.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to help us not get fat or get diabetes, he’s just trying to help us get healthy. Mayor Bloomberg has noted that the ban doesn’t make people not drink the 16oz., but health officials hope that the inconvenience of doing so will curb consumption of sugar drinks. Drinking that much soda can interfere with your health and if you are working out and then you reward yourself with a 16o. Will not help at all you are probably just gaining all your weight back that you just lost from your workout.
One member of the board, Dr. Sixto Caro, abstained, nothing, “I am still skeptical. This is not comprehensive enough,” the associated Press reported. There are people who don’t think this Ban of large sodas is going to work because of how many people drink 16oz. a day or twice a week those people don’t want to pass this ban because they probably think that 16oz. is cheap to begin with other then buying a pack of soda for more. Some people want to be unhealthy and eat and drink what they want and some others want to be healthy and not drink and eat unhealthy stuff that they don’t need. The city’s health board by a vote was 8 to 0 of banning 16oz. sodas because it can harm or even destroy businesses that can make people lose their jobs and have nothing to support them. The people who are healthy are healthy because they don’t drink 16oz. a day they drink water or Gatorade or other beverages that can make them healthy.