Enough of this soda thing. Another news story coming out of my own neighborhood. Why can’t the Coca-Cola lobby just make it all go away!

What I already know:

1. We are a settled-in-front of a screen society, and there is an issue with obesity in America.

2. I know that psychologically, if you limit the amount of beverage you can get at one time (16 oz. max rather than 44 oz. gigantic gulp or whatever it is) this will ultimately cut down on how much you consume. It just works that way.

3. I also know that fruit juice is filled with sugar, too. Why the pass?

4. I know that city parks and libraries need to provide more drinking fountains with colder water so City Councilman’s daughters can just have a go at the bubbler (Note I used two slang terms for  a water releasing public drinking apparatus, because I don’t know where you are from), rather than deciding to buy from a beverage machine and then having her dad end up proposing another ban. Though I do like her dad.

Everything is really a spiritual matter anyway. If you want to be healthy, you will work at being healthy and learn to say, “No,” to that which you want, but may be harmful for you down the road. It isn’t in our human nature to say, “No,” but it is in God’s nature to make us into the kind of people who can say, “No.” if we allow Him to. By saying, “No,” to other things.

No amount of government intervention is ultimately going to save us from getting what we think we absolutely must have. It starts on the inside and a change from within.

And government officials? Let’s keep our eye on the economic ball for a while, shall we?