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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (called The Daily Show until 1999), is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central and, in Canada, The Comedy Network.

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Soft drinks are the whipping boy of anti-obesity campaigns

Statistics show that obesity and diabetes are on a trajectory to be to today's kids what a house and white-picket fence were to the previous generation.

No surprise then that governments "solutions" crop up like kudzu, the latest being New York City's proposed ban on soft drinks 16 ounces and up.We fault our politicians because they lack the courage to deal with difficult problems in a meaningful way. So, it's refreshing to have a politician like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg actually try to solve what seems like an intractable problem. Only, it's not the right solution.The problem is too many calories going in and not enough going out. Those calories come from everywhere, not just soft drinks. Soft drinks are simply the easiest target to demagogue.A liter of Coca-Cola has 400 calories and 108 grams of sugar. A Haagen-Dazs Belgian Chocolate Shake has 1,260 calories and 102 grams of sugar plus 79 grams of fat, 47 of them, saturated. No one's talking about banning, limiting or tax...

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