What about my right to Big Gulps? A prohibition New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to implement – if it survives the fury he has whipped up and gets approval (which is expected) from a city health panel – is on the sale of sugary soft drinks above 16 ounces in restaurants, movie theaters and other places where a person is buying an individual serving, not an amount to be shared.

This Op-Ed piece in the New York Times reviews many down sides (it’s not an effective measure but rather a futile gesture; there’s worry over  encroaching upon personal liberties to name a few) but ultimately supports the measure: “Food ceased to be ‘a frontier too far’ when the fraction of American adults who qualify as obese climbed above one in three.” Read more…