As long as Nutrition is not Science and based on Scientific evidence we can only make the problem worse by passing laws that support our own misinformation. Check out Dr Peter Attia’s blog on nutrition.

There is evidence that the consumption of sugar provides a high no less intense or habit forming than cigarettes or heroin.

Not that I favor outlawing super size.

I always buy the super size because I end up paying less per ounce. Something a rich mayor probably never has to consider. Of course I drink Diet Pepsi.

To prove the point, consider the injection of rightwing sloganeering in this post ( ie “He proposes to solve the problem with a law only Big Brother could love. It represents nothing less than the usurpation of personal prerogatives, the enforced substitution of government standards for individual ones, the triumph of the Nanny State.”).

The contention is mindless, even if Bloomberg’s regulation is silly.

I would prefer to see prolonged public debate over sweeping intervention proposals, as for example a mandatory staged-reduction in maximum sugar content over an extended period of time, analogous to what was done to reduce vehicle emissions and increase miles per gallon, or the imposition of taxes and warning labels analogous to those on cigarettes. The facts of the crisis need ventilation, and so do the pros and cons of possible means to mitigate against them.