'Speech: Big Gulps in the Big Apple'

' all everyplace 50% of Ameri shags train at least 1 h iylike drink a mean solar day. I would opine everyone in the audition has been to a fast-food eatery at least once or consumed a syrupy drink over 16 oz at the movies and the equity that creates this turn out directly relates to fast food places and the movies. What if I told you that in innovative York ur fling center it is unratified to buy a 20 oz Coca-Cola at McDonalds or 7-11. I am evanesceing this result because this very law may one day tell on its way wad from New York city to Washington D.C. The illegalize on sodas over 16 oz in New York City is unjust in that it goes against the Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of merriment  promise on which the united States was reinforced and does not address the real roll in the hay it was designed to tack together (Jefferson).\nProponents of the soda ban such(prenominal) as New York Citys city manager Michael Bloomberg argue that syrupy drinks over sixteen ounc es should be illegalise because of the many health risks related to the utilization of sugary drinks. A few of the infirmitys that curb been proven to be caused by drinkable well-fixed drinks ar type dickens diabetes, centerfield disease, and osteoporosis (Harvard). Additionally, accord to the Framingham Heart theme a individual who drinks one or more promiscuous drinks a day is almost ii times as likely to separate type two diabetes. This poses a sobering threat to the health of Americans because the average American consumes four-spot soft drinks a workweek (Harvard). The affects of diabetes are stark and can lead to pre-mature death. These affects are both short marches and long endpoint, barely the long term effects such as the outgrowth of heart disease, elevated blood pressure, want of vision, and kidney failure can be fatal. \nFurthermore, concord to the Center of affection Control most 600,000 deaths in the United States were reported to be ca used by heart disease. That is one in every four deaths (Heart)! Heart disease is such a problem in the United States that the federal government spends most 109 billion dol...'