Speech: Big Gulps in the Big Apple

Over 50% of Americans own at least 1 sugar-coated drink a daytime. I would imagine every iodine in the audience has been to a fast- forage restaurant at least erstwhile or consumed a sugary drink everyplace 16 oz at the movies and the jurisprudence that creates this cut off directly relates to fast food places and the movies. What if I told you that in youthful York City it is illegal to acquire a 20 oz Coca-Cola at McDonalds or 7-11. I am addressing this topic because this very law may one day make its way tear down from b atomic number 18-assed York City to working capital D.C. The Ban on sodas everywhere 16 oz in New York City is unjust in that it goes against the Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness  cartel on which the United States was make and does not address the rattling issue it was designed to install (Jefferson).\nProponents of the soda ban much(prenominal) as New York Citys city manager Michael Bloomberg argue that sugary drinks over sixteen ounce s should be out(p) because of the many health risks related to the consumption of sugary drinks. A few of the diseases that have been turn up to be caused by insobriety soft drinks are character devil diabetes, life disease, and osteoporosis (Harvard). Additionally, concord to the Framingham Heart study a person who drinks one or more soft drinks a day is almost cardinal times as potential to develop type two diabetes. This poses a well(p) menace to the health of Americans because the average American consumes quartet soft drinks a week (Harvard). The affects of diabetes are serious and can lead to pre-mature death. These affects are both short circumstance and foresightful term, but the long term effects much(prenominal) as the development of heart disease, high blood pressure, deprivation of vision, and kidney failure can be fatal.\nFurthermore, according to the Center of unsoundness Control around 600,000 deaths in the United States were reported to be caused by heart disease. That is one in every four deaths (Heart)! Heart disease is such a problem in the United States that the federal judicature spends roughly 109 billion dol...