so sometimes the easy yes/no that we re all drawn to particularly as catholics doesn t always work out in the end of the day with food related issues. and sometimes i think the better answer on food issues is to expand access to quality food, to not just say no, but to make sure people have a choice to get something. so for example i disagree with you. i think particularly on issues like smoking, drinking, guzzling sodas too big for them, eating 16 big macs a day, whatever it may be, the reality is we all need a bit of nannying about that. people on diets is a form of nanny estate. in a way i hope i m wrong. i hope the mayor s right and this is effective but i really am concerned that the kind of negative no, no, no of this as an obesity issue which i think can be different than some of the other bans like smoking, i m afraid it s not going to be effective. but at some point when it goes into effect, we ll have that
so sometimes the easy yes/no that we re all drawn to particularly as catholics doesn t always work out in the end of the day with food related issues. and sometimes i think the better answer on food issues is to expand access to quality food, to not just say no, but to make sure people have a choice to get something. so for example i disagree with you. i think particularly on issues like smoking, drinking, guzzling sodas too big for them, eating 16 big macs a day, whatever it may be, the reality is we all need a bit of nannying about that. people on diets is a form of nanny estate. in a way i hope i m wrong. i hope the mayor s right and this is effective but i really am concerned that the kind of negative no, no, no of this as an obesity issue which i think can be different than some of the other bans like smoking, i m afraid it s not going to be effective. but at some point when it goes
he has done more for this obesity issue to get it into people s minds than anybody, including michelle obama. it s a victory for him. shepard: when i was a kid, a large soda from a mcdonald s was maybe i don t know 12-14 ounces, and now at 7-eleven and others, 42 ounces is and nobody was ever on the other side going, whoa, 42 ounces, for real? i guess maybe he and others are going to now own that for a while, and we ll see if they can t make us drink less. it s a very good point, and bloomberg has made it clear that for the first time in history, more people die of obesity than die of starvation on this planet. that s something. this guy is a real leader, shep. he would make a great pope. maybe you can put a word in. shepard: i don t have a direct path over here but the. see you back in the city. if you happen to look up in
that you re referring to but it s close. what s the message here? you ve had it, you re fed up or is this just crossing the line? the message is that people ought to be familiar with the fact that government is now going to dictate the size of everything that you eat if they can dictate the size of your drink and, you know, the new york cheesecake is now going to look like a small slice of cheesecake. if you take this thing to its logical conclusion. all right. so i think one of the things that bothers me personally about it is that i worry about, you know, will it actually do any good? if that s what the mayor is after, making people not so fat because the bottom line is you can still buy two 16 ounce drinks instead of buying a 20 ounce so you can get around it. yeah, you can get around it. think that you re in a movie theater and you re in there for two or three hours, you ve got your popcorn and you ve gone through your small soda and now you have to go out to the concession
good morning everyone. welcome to early start. nice to have you with us. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we re bringing you the news from a to z. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get started. this is cnn breaking news. we begin with breaking news this morning. two american tourists kidnapped by gunmen in egypt. it happened in the town of dahab in the region of egypt. the report says that two americans were forced out of a car and taken away. the alleged kidnappers demanding the release of a man who was arrested a day before for drug possession. cnn s ben wedeman is live in cairo. i know these are late-breaking details. what can you tell us? reporter: the embassy is in close contact with the egyptian authorities. they say to resolve this situation. now, it s not unusual, the not the first time that tourists, including americans, have been kidnapped here. since the revolution at the beginning of last year, state authority in that part of egypt has really