>what can you really do about it? You can write articles for popular online news sites that inform people. The generalizations made in the article are complet

>what can you really do about it? You can write articles for popular online news sites that inform people. The generalizations made in the article are completely valid for the audience they're targeting: specifically, the x% of Americans who are at increased risk of a heart attack because of the government subsidies you mentioned, as well as their own addiction to sugar. Can you speak to exactly why the specific regulations mentioned -- the ones that were allegedly successful in Mexico -- won't work or are otherwise harmful? FTA: >The key interventions they implemented included taxing soda, banning junk food television advertising, and eliminating processed foods, junk food and sugar-sweetened beverages from schools. More than 15 countries have targeted sugar-sweetened beverages by taxing them — a strategy that’s proven successful. All of these sound completely reasonable to me. Can you provide some counter evidence to the NIH study cited in the article? [0] [0]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19759377 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19759377 Is it not possible that perhaps government regulation and the elimination/reduction of corn subsidies could be reasonable steps to take? Sugar is addictive. The availability of low-sugar products is as relevant to the sugar addict as the presence of a basketball hoop is to a heroin addict. Sure, the heroin addict could spend his time playing basketball instead of shooting up, but that doesn't make heroin intervention an unreasonable solution.