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This is ridiculous. US Senate leaders want to put new federal taxes on soda and other sugary drinks that would go to pay for an overhaul of the national health-care system that President Obama wants to implement.

“While many factors promote weight gain, soft drinks are the only food or beverage that has been shown to increase the risk of overweight and obesity, which, in turn, increase the risk of diabetes, stroke, and many other health problems,” Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which is pushing the idea, said in his testimony. “Soft drinks are nutritionally worthless…[and] are directly related to weight gain, partly because beverages are more conducive to weight gain than solid foods.”

I am an extremely healthy person, well fit, an athlete who likes to drink a sport drink before my daily training because it gives me some energy, especially because I wake up at 4:00 am so I can go out to the streets to road bike at 5:15 am to avoid crazy drivers. So yes, I need my Red Bull or my Monster to wake up and get some good energy at the start.
And since I bike ride for about 2:30 to 3:00 hrs average everyday (weekends even more) I definitely want Gatorade to replenish the potassium, sodium and glucose.

Why in the freaking world these stoopid people want to hurt my wallet and millions of other athletes’s wallets as well? Why, why, why? They don’t think properly, that is the problem. They have terrible financial chaos in the country. They didn’t know how to manage Medicare and now they pretend to know how to implement universal or national health-care? For goodness sake, are they serious?

I find this to be simply pathetic. Putting higher taxes on Gatorade, FRS (the one that Lance Armstrong promotes), Red Bull, and other sport, energy drinks or sodas won’t teach people to be healthy.

That is not how they [politicians] educate people. That is how they empty the wallet of the people!