date:Sep 15, 2012
adults and close to 40% of the citys public elementary and middle school students. In an opinion piece in the New York Daily News, Thomas Farley, commissioner of New York Citys Health Department, writes that if the new regulation leads to New Yorkers simply reducing the size of one sugary drink from 20 ounces to 16 ounces every other week, it would help them avoid gaining some 2.3 million pounds a year. He adds that {o}besity leads to the deaths of nearly 6,000 New Yorkers a year, more than any