A fatter America

 The video takes a somewhat complicated issue and sort of makes it more understandable. The bill Mayor Bloomburg has passed through prohibits places selling drinks to limit their sizes to only 16 ounces. The video does a good job in putting that in visual terms instead of just stating a number making it appealing to anyone. Not only are you hearing the facts but your seeing the actual soda sizes, the actual cubes of sugar that go into each drink and even how many cans or bottles that go into each drink. To me a medium at Mcdonalds never seemed that big into I actually got to see the video and how much sugar is really needed and how a drink that big isn't that necessary. The video brings up the actual documents but them puts them in way that is easier to comprehend.

My thoughts on the bill is that is a good idea to a certain extent. But shouldn't be just limited to stores or places that are run by the city. Places like Starbucks and Dunkin donuts according to this bill are okay because they establishment doesn't sugar the drinks the customers do, or the drink contains 50% dairy is a tricky one.Because in those cases it is the person themselves regulating how much sugar gets put in their drink.The fact that a large at Mcdonalds is 104 grams of sugar is literally just way too much.Its like that at most resturants and places where the portions of things we eat and drink are so much bigger than is necessary and I certainly think that it is contributing to the obesity of America. 


 I also agree to a point that it is each person's choice to what size they want to buy and that it shouldn't be up to me to regulate that.I know it might seem annoying to have someone regulate what size drinks you can buy but if it becomes the standard everywhere to me it wouldnt seem as much as a big deal. Hey if you feel the need to buy 3 16 ounce drinks to quench your thirst for it , go for it, there is no limit there. I just don't like the way Mayor Bloomberg in the video used the word forcing in trying to get people to understand how much sugar were intaking.Those aren't exactly the words I would use since they could be taken out of context so easily, but the bill isn't a bad idea. America is getting fatter and fatter and cutting back on sizes could help control the size increase. I figured also this way places like Mcdonalds can't get sued for making their customers overweight because it would then fall back on the choices the customer decides to make.