Banning sugar-sweetened beverages reduced drinking and waist size in a university environment.

“we just saw the absurdity of being a medical center people come with these chronic diseases and what are they served in the cafeteria or even at their bedside sugared Coke in the hospital in the hospital and so my colleague laor Schmidt who's um partly responsible for the soda tax she rallied the all the um we went top down to Administration but bottom up to vendors got rid of all the soda in all of our hospitals and campuses and we found two things number one people who were heavy drinkers lost weight in the most important Place their waste heavy soda drinkers mhm so when we took it out of the workplace they actually their health improved and number two those with compulsive eating they score high on our our little”