date:Oct 13, 2012
n obesity problem that takes a toll on many New Yorkers' health and city hospitals' budgets.
The measure keeps people from drinking extra calories without thinking, he says. For someone who drinks a soda every day, for example, downing a 16-ounce Coke instead of a 20-ounce one trims 14,600 calories a year, or the equivalent of 70 Hershey bars.
Nobody is banning anything, the mayor said when the plan passed, noting that someone who wanted a second soda could get one.
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