THOUGHTBOX

We all know there's a ton of stuff in our urban lives that make us fat. Fast food makes us fat and we know it. Drinking sugary sodas and fizzy drinks makes us fat. Every day new studies and magazine articles scare the confidence out of us with new results that slowly paint a picture in our heads: this fucking world wants to make us FAT by any means. Well, I'm here to shake that confidence a little bit more, unfortunately. Say you stay away from fats foods and sugary drinks already, and put lots of veg and fruit in your diet. Say you work out a couple of days a week and you think you're pretty much safe from random obesity. About the only unfit thing you do is the car ride to and back from work every day, so it's no surprise your reward yourself with a nice little downtime each day, say watching your favorite TV show. Nothing wrong could possibly go wrong and make you fat now, can it? WRONG. That's right fuckface - it's the only exercise you'll do a...

More normal news from New York, where mayor Bloomberg is proposing a  sanction  on the sale of sugary beverages in the city. His proposal is to limit the size of such drinks old in  restaurants, mobile food carts, movie theaters and more, and aims to fight obesity in a city where 58% of all adults are overweight or obese. This would effectively limit the sale of beverages to 0.5L containers, but does not affect diet sodas or dairy-based drinks. This is not the first initiative taken by Mayor Bloomberg to fight obesity: he's already banned trans fats in restaurants and has led a campaign to reduce salt intake. Just as this proposal is facing a lot of criticism, he also enforced a regulation which prevented smoking in bars and restaurants that was faced with a lot of criticism from both smokers and non-smokers. The claim was that  the government should not force itself into private lives, and this exact same argument is now being used in the soda issue. Th...