Sentences with phrase «sugary drink sizes»

She said she supported street - hail taxi service beyond Manhattan, which he has criticized, and opposed Mr. Bloomberg's proposed limits on sugary drink sizes, a plan that Mr. de Blasio supports.

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But this isn't a tax on all sugar; the levy directly targets the producers and importers of sugary soft drinks to encourage them to remove added sugar, promote diet drinks, and reduce portion sizes for high sugar drinks.

One is a plan to restrict the size of sugary drinks to 16 ounces or less nearly everywhere they are sold, which is expected to be approved soon by the city health board.

The proposal would limit the size of sugary drinks sold by eateries regulated by the city's Health Department to 16 ounces.

In a pint - sized version of ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg's attempt to ban super-sized sugary drinks, the NYC Board of Health announced dramatically stricter rules for all licensed city day cares, including a limit on how much juice kids can drink.

Doubtless most people's reaction when they first heard of Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban on large - size sugary drinks was: There he goes again.

Gostin explains why, despite the label of «Nanny Bloomberg,» the mayor's controversial soda portion limit makes sense: «The mayor relied on science to support a creative, untested strategy: sugary drinks deliver empty calories, with a direct relationship to obesity, while portion sizes have grown exponentially.

As long as you avoid starchy carbs and sugary drinks most of the time, reduce serving sizes when you do indulge, and always eat carb «blockers» like vegetables and / or fatty foods first, you don't need lists, carb counting or even a detailed food diary to be successful.

The recommendations include keeping your intake of red meat to no more than four ounces (about the size of a deck of cards) per day on average, avoiding processed meats such as sausages and bologna, eating at least five servings of a variety of non-starchy vegetables and fruits every day, and minimizing your intake of sugary drinks, juices, desserts and candies, refined breads and bagels, and chips.

Comprehensive policies that remove or restrict the availability and / or serving size of the full spectrum of sugary drinks in schools are an effective method for lowering children's and adolescents» consumption of them.

But as a study published in Preventive Medicine shows, it pays to determine the level of government intervention people will accept — Americans surveyed by researchers were not willing to accept general soda portion size restrictions, but they were more likely to approve of removing sugary drinks from school environments.