Proof that beverage choices change at the point of sale, is not the same as proof of positive health outcomes.
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The fact that ultra processed, high sugar, high sodium foods are so cheap is what really punishes poor people.
This is only evidence of consuming less sugar in pop. There doesn’t appear to be anything showing their total calories went down or that they consumed less sugar.
pretty much all “sin taxes”, the blanket term for taxes designed to lower consumption of something ‘sinful’, end up with drastically less revenue than anyone predicts. The reason should be obvious - the taxes do what they’re supposed to, so people buy less, which means the tax revenue becomes dramatically less.
No, he is acknowledging reality. The last study I saw on the Philadelphia soda tax is that it failed to have much impact on consumption, that the decrease in soda sales in the city have been countered by increases in soda sales in the surrounding cities.
I live in Hawaii, and I actually never got the first message. First I heard of it was when the “Oops!” message was sent out. I got *that* one.
“obvious” studies often have serious value. First of all they can help us confirm what we think. Secondly, oftentimes we find out that “obvious conclusions” are actually false. Third, they help us quantify and qualify something, in this case the amount of response and potential cost both economic and mental. …
I can’t wait for the results on the influx of births resulting from “unprotected apocalypse sex”.
Good on you! I just stood outside of the Starbucks on Keeaumoku and smoked a cigarette.
That cover photo still gives me a brief flash of anxiety. I woke up my fiance and we grabbed our dog and disaster kits and drove to UH because we saw an old fallout shelter sign there. Turns out the entire undergraduate class had the same idea. Fun fact, that cold war era shelter is now a locked storage room. One of…
Hawaiian here. Wife called me excitedly about the warning broadcast to her phone (I was on a shuttle bus to the Sony Golf Open). I checked news outlets (Google, CNN, BBC, Reuters) - nothing. I and everyone else around me carried on with normal business.
Right, you need turmeric and coconut oil to cure cancer. Lemon juice only cures polio. Duh, everyone knows that
Man, you really gotta try to keep up.
Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. Ahem. The Theory, by A. Elk. That’s A for Anne, it’s not by a elk.
Dude’s name is Forrest...and he’s a biologist??
Anyone else think her nose was the head at first glance? I was like, wow.... what a tiny little itty bitty head for such a large body. Lol.
So her mate, who was better hidden on their home island is left to wonder happened to her now? Wow, what a anthropomorphically heart breaking story this turned out to be.
Okay, C. Phantasticus is the best tortoise name ever. Ever.