Should sugary drink consumption be reduced, and are taxes a good way to achieve this?


My first source is an article from the New York Time “For weight Loss, Water Beat Diet Soda”. This article is relevant to my research because show how water is more helpful to lose weight than diet soda. Water help “half of 81 women with overweight and diabetes to  lost and average of 14 pounds, while the diet soda group lost 11.5 pounds, after 24 weeks”. Diet soda has an average of 1 gram of sugar, while water doesn't have a gram of sugar. Also, the author show how the group who consumed water, their metabolism get better and they had “a greater improvements in fasting insulin” while the other group didn’t.

My second sources is another article from the New York Time “New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks”. I choose these sources because it's a reliable source. The author Michael M. Grynbaum discusses about banning the big size of sugary drinks. Also, he states the reason why New York and Bloomberg want to reduce the sizes of sugary drinks.

My third source is from the CDC According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sugary drinks such as “Soda, and fruit drinks” these products does not contain the necessary amount of nutrients to be considerate “healthy” and it could produce an illness such as diabetes or over-weight. For these reasons these article is relevant to my research because it show how sugary drinks could be harmful for us.

Works Cited



Bakalar, Nicholas. "For Weight Loss, Water Beats Diet Soda." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia, 20 Oct. 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/well/eat/for-weight-loss-water-beats-diet-soda.html.
Grynbaum, Michael M. "Bloomberg Plans a Ban on Large Sugared Drinks." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia, 30 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/nyregion/bloomberg-plans-a-ban-on-large-sugared-drinks.html.
Park, Sohyun, et al. "Prevalence of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Among Adults — 23 States and the District of Columbia, 2013 | MMWR." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 Aug. 2017, www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6507a1.htm.