Of the city and supervisor cohen raised concern about that, she asked about the fillmore district. Its areas with heavily low in come population and African Americans and people of color and heavily on the eastern neighborhoods in the city and a little bit up there in china down toun and tenderloin and other spots. That is correct. So in terms of the a sugar that we are consuming, average americans are consuming about 22 teaspoons a day and recommended that men not have more than 9 teaspoons and women and children 3. For a 20 ounce. I was looking at the can assuming that people are still drinking the cans and not the 20 ounceers. Even the small size would blow that recommendation out for the day. The graphic just represents that and roberto was get to go that as well in terms of the fact that sugar drinks really impact our entire system, every part of our body. We dont have a lot of information on the impact on oral health. We know it impacts oral health. Children under the age of one
That. When you take a look at the food system, sugar is really all over our food system. And as was mentioned previously about half of those sugars come from beverages. When you take a look at the beverages, soda contributes to the added sugar in our diets. When you calories from beverages that we drink often dont displace the calories that you might eat. So you will add those calories next to that burger and fries and again it has to do with your if physiological response where a drink may make you feel hungry. And from an environmental perspective when you look at the setting we are living in when mcdonalds introduced its first coke was 7 ounces and now you can go to 7eleven and get 128ounce gulp. You can also take a look at pricing and the prices for healthy food and fruits and vegetables have south courting according to the Consumer Price index and coupled with the fact that your body craves it, its something of an important dynamic thats going on here. We can see that over the dec
Thats the end of our report. Well be happy to answer any questions. Any questions . Thank you. The next speaker is Robert Vargas with ucfs with the policy program. They have advised on the Health Impacts and hes here to respond to the report. Good morning. Thanks for having the budget and legislative office prepare this report. We are happy to be a part of gathering this data and helping it to be more accessible to the rest of the folks in the city. We really think its important that folks are wear of the Health Impacts of this particular product. We are also very interested in partnering with the city and the university to inform policy decisions and Public Health approaches and take a look at the most Current Research and we believe that we have some highly qualified researchers at our university to help with that information. I think this is a really important report for presenting what is a very difficult issue without having all of this information is difficult to understand. This
Calcium leaching from the bones and this can replace healthier drinks from homes such as milk. It used to be twice a day and now soda is consumed twice as much. This is a picture of a liver. A normal liver and a fatty liver. What we understand from our partners at ucsf is that not alcohol Liver Disease is accounting for 20 percent of liver transplant per day that is something that didnt happen in the past. Thats nonalcoholic Liver Disease . Nonalcoholic fatty Liver Disease. And then lastly to what weve been speak together issue of over weight and obesity. There are many other health impacts. Guma referred to others. These are ones that we see from tremendous impacts with sugary drinks. I will take questions. That is a really helpful presentation. You mentioned a statistic that we talked about before that a 12 ounce can of soda has 9 teaspoons of sugar and 17 ounces and a 20 ounces bottle. You showed a slide the biggest of the big gulps. So for example the teen gulp at 7eleven, i hadnt
Think its important that folks are wear of the Health Impacts of this particular product. We are also very interested in partnering with the city and the university to inform policy decisions and Public Health approaches and take a look at the most Current Research and we believe that we have some highly qualified researchers at our university to help with that information. I think this is a really important report for presenting what is a very difficult issue without having all of this information is difficult to understand. This information is really helpful in doing that. Also in addition to whats being prepared here there is a number of disparity. What often gets lost in the conversation is the fact that there is tremendous disparity with regard who is tools to to who is impacted. For example, if we look at rates of over weight or obesity in San Francisco, the African American community is higher impacted at 21 percent in the community at being overweight. Multiracial folks are imp