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Warning: Soda May Be Bad for Your Health

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current event by Brandon on 15 July 2005, tagged as fitnessnutrition

The Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a petition with the FDA to require warning labels on non-diet soda. The suggested warning label information included:

<i>• The U.S. Government recommends that you drink less (non-diet) soda to help prevent weight gain, tooth decay, and other health problems.

• To help protect your waistline and your teeth, consider drinking diet sodas or water.

• Drinking soft drinks instead of milk or calcium-fortified beverages may increase your risk of brittle bones (osteoporosis).

• This drink contains x grams of caffeine, which is a mildly addictive stimulant drug. Not appropriate for children.</i>

Others, however, have sloughed the 'soda scare' off as having 'no fizz,' citing previous stories that reported findings that lack of exercise, not snack foods, fattens kids. Petition endorsements were said to have 'anti-food industry and anti-soft drink biases' and the recommendation that kids drink more milk was said to be inconsistent with CSPI's previous actions.

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Get off my toilet seat by Brandon :: NR9

I can understand why the government would want to get involved in such a situation; the health of the populous has a considerable financial impact on the federal government. But, I don't like it. I don't like the government being so tied up in the personal decisions of the populous. The government is elected for a specific reason, and that reason is NOT to take up slack for lazy citizens. If someone wants more information on a product, they can get it. If they can't get it, then they organize and act to inflict change - not through the government, but through the systems of capitalism. Companies are dependant on the support of their customers and if the customers want a differently labeled product or a healthier product, chances are they will get it.

Unless the legislation is in direct relation to the government's purpose of protecting life, liberty and the PURSUIT OF happiness (not just plain happiness), then I say get off my toilet seat. Congress should be spending its time developing a clear and established independence from the personal decision-making of the populous, not strengthening the cords of attachment and furthering a mutually disadvantageous relationship of irresponsibility, blame and control.

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