Able to sit for the entire hearing today. But i want to thank you for your hard work and diligence on this report. It is incredible on what you have done and weve heard the facts on what will be part of this year. Hopefully by the end of this initiative, we will, our children will be spewing out facts and it is our goal to raise Peoples Awareness and i want to acknowledge the unprecedented number of educators all the way down to the clergy and to the people that are adversely affected by sugary beverages. Im excited because we have an opportunity to inspire other municipalities and other cities all across this nation to really take a hold of our health care. And policy of the Affordable Care act, and the other half paying attention to our diet and the third part being exercise. We will hear the statistics which are staggering when you know diabetes is a preventable disease and the birth defects and what liquid sugar does to the body and it is preventable and it is our responsibility as
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Wednesday december 11, 2013. My name is supervisor ferrel. I will be chairing the meeting joined by john avalos and scott wiener and Supervisor Malia Cohen many i would like to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting. Any announcements . The clerk yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Items for today will appear on the 2013 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay. We have a number of items 19 and a hearing which is scheduled as item no. 10. We are taking that first. Please call item no. 10. The clerk item 130946 agenda[hearing impact of sugar sweetened beverages to the san franciscans health and health care sector]13094610. Sponsors mar; wiener and avaloshearing on the impacts that sugar sweetened beverages have on san franciscans health and the health care sector. 9 24 13; received and assigned to the Neighborhood Services and safety committee. 12 2 13; transferred to the budget the clerk sf 101234 thank you very much. This hearing was sponsored b
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
Opportunity. I think theres a lot to what you say, senator, that if we regulate, we do legitimize. Some of todays witnesses have talked about trust and trust is a very important factor particularly with Financial Products and services. So there is that risk. There is a bone in my body that says, i think thats a risk worth taking. And i think its particularly worth taking as we think of these Virtual Currencies as having functions that are a lot like credit cards or debit cards in this respects. Wouldnt you agree that right now, without any form of intervention, without legitimizing it, every buyer out there has to be careful and that has restricted or limited or tapped down the willingness of people to participate . And you really are, its kind of ironic because we want all the Free Enterprise system, but the regulatory scheme and saying ive adapted to that, buys you the opportunity to participate in the market in a way that the other Financial Institutions participate . I couldnt agre