{"id":1059,"date":"2012-09-15T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:03","slug":"new-york-bans-super-sized-sugary-drinks-a-step-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2012\/09\/new-york-bans-super-sized-sugary-drinks-a-step-in-the-right-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"New York bans super-sized, sugary drinks &#8211; a step in the right direction!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1060\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2012\/09\/new-york-bans-super-sized-sugary-drinks-a-step-in-the-right-direction\/biggest-big-gulps-resized-watermarked-final-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1060\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1060\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1060 \" title=\"How BIG our drinks have gotten!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/biggest-big-gulps-resized-watermarked-final-1.jpg\" alt=\"How BIG our drinks have gotten!\" width=\"630\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/biggest-big-gulps-resized-watermarked-final-1.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/biggest-big-gulps-resized-watermarked-final-1-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How BIG our drinks have gotten! Courtesy, Mother Jones<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hooray!\u00a0Seriously. This is a BIG step in the right direction. So they banned the sale of sugary drinks over 16oz, this includes pop, iced-tea and other calorie packed beverages. I mean lets be honest, 16oz is already a big enough drink. Now it has gotten right out of hand in the past few decades in the US (and to a less extend here in Canada) with drink portion sizes &#8211; some drinks you can buy are just\u00a0humongous, so much so they won&#8217;t even fit in most cupholders! You just don&#8217;t need that much soda. You don&#8217;t. If you are that thirsty water is a better thirst quencher anyways (buy bottled water if need but, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2010\/10\/ok-enough-with-the-bottled-water-already\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but a better option is a reusable water bottle<\/a> ;-)<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/1256023--new-york-bans-super-sized-sugary-drinks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here in the Toronto Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray!\u00a0Seriously. This is a BIG step in the right direction. So they banned the sale of sugary drinks over 16oz, this includes pop, iced-tea and other calorie packed beverages. I mean lets be honest, 16oz is already a big enough drink. Now it has gotten right out of hand in the past few decades in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,382],"tags":[414,415,413,416],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}