Sugary Drinks or Diet Drinks: What’s the Best Choice? Alexander B. Simon ITT Technical Institute Abstract Better beverage choices can help fight and prevent obesity and diabetes. Water‚ of course‚ is the best beverage option. It delivers everything the body needs—pure H2O—with zero calories. But for some tastes‚ plain water is just too plain—and it may be unrealistic to ask everyone to kick the sugar-water habit overnight. We must instead work to retrain the American palate away from sweet
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sugar-sweetened beverages a day may boost women’s risk for heart disease and diabetes‚ even if they’re not gaining weight‚ a new study suggests. Researchers spent five years tracking 4‚166 women ages 45 to 84. They found that women who downed at least two sugary drinks a day were nearly four times as likely as those who drank no more than one to have high levels of triglycerides‚ a fatty substance that in excess has been linked to heart disease‚ and abnormal levels of fasting glucose‚ a precursor to diabetes
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Poll: Most Oppose Tax on Junk Food This poll was taken as part of CBS News’ "Where America Stands" series‚ an in-depth look at where the country stands today on key topics and an outlook for the future decade. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most Americans want to lose weight‚ a new CBS News poll finds – but they do not favor a tax on junk food and do not believe that such a tax would help lower obersity. The poll results reveal that the vast
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Michael McHugh Composition II Julie Herskovitz 08/10/2011 Should Governments Legalize and Tax Marijuana? Marijuana Legalization and the Revenue from Marijuana Sales The war on drugs is an expensive battle‚ as a great deal of resources and time go into catching those who buy or sell illegal drugs on the black market‚ prosecuting them in court‚ and housing them in jail. These costs seem particularly exorbitant when dealing with the drug marijuana‚ as it is widely used‚ and is likely no
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property rights for the use and support of government In order to enable it to discharge its function. Nature of Taxation Power * The power of taxation is both inherent and legislative in character because it has been reserved by the State for it to exercise * It is inherent because the sustenance of government requires contribution from them. * The power of taxation is legislative in character because only the legislature can make tax laws. Purpose of Taxation * The primary
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Several years ago energy drinks barley existed. Not all people were familiar of it. People who consumed it did not understand the bad health effects behind it. This is because they were not as popular as it is today. Nowadays‚ energy beverages markets grew rapidly in recent years. There are many different brands of this drink in the world today. These beverages have caused many health problems to those who consume them. One group affected by the high consumption of energy drinks are children. The increase
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Karlee Leach “One 12-ounce soda a day can increase your risk of heart attack by 30%” (Sugary Drinks Can Wreck Your Body! By Evan Cook). Is this really what people want? People dying from heart attacks is a real concern in the U.S.‚ and one way to have a heart attack‚ is having too much sugar. One cause of consuming a lot of sugar is by drinking it‚ whether it be Gatorade‚ Rockstar‚ or even a vitamin water. Sugary drinks‚ amongst other things‚ contribute a large part to obesity and heart attack in America
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Services Tax (GST) can facilitate a significant improvement in the overall tax administration and enable revenue authorities to introduce modern procedures based on voluntary compliance. GST is a consumption tax charged on a wide range of domestic & international products‚ goods and services. GST covers all types of goods & services sold to Malaysian & non-Malaysian residents also known as consumers except for common commodities such as rice‚ flour & sugar. It is a broad-based tax imposed
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The GST input tax incurred by businesses is claimable as a credit if they make taxable supplies. This avoids the cascading tax effect of the current single-stage sales tax and service tax regime‚ which results in higher prices. Recognising the wide-ranging impact of GST‚ the Government has proposed an initial low rate of 4%‚ coupled with zero-rating and exemption of essential goods and services. Anti-profiteering legislation and other measures for qualifying persons in the lower-income
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strength among other effects. Recently‚ food processors and restaurants are needed to list nutritional advice in more realistic and conspicuous means but some propose the government to impose a tax on junk food and fatty snacks. The concept was first proposed in early 1942 by a physiologist who argued that individuals should be taxed per pound they were above standard weight. The concept has moved across from entity to groups of specific food‚ especially which are likely to increase the risk of
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