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		<title>Arguments For and Against Junk Food and Soda Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over junk food taxes is drawing increasing attention from both sides.  Continued debate over of the adverse health impacts of sugary drinks is coupled with heating debate over the propriety of a tax on a dietary pleasure &#8212; a pleasure some believe people have an unassailable right to partake in, but others find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Junk Food Tax: Good for Our Health or Bad for Our Wealth?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month New York Governor David Paterson proposed an obesity tax to be levied on fattening foods.  He characterizes America&#8217;s problem with obesity as a crisis.  Drawing a comparison to cigarettes, he suggests that just as cigarette taxes reduced the number of American&#8217;s consumption of cigarettes, a tax on certain junk foods should reduce the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Outdated Behavioral Code to Blame for Unhealthy Living Habits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notwithstanding the well known danger and the clear evidence that healthy living habits significantly reduces the risk, many Americans choose to live lifestyles that put them at high risk of suffering from heart disease.   To explain this seemingly irrational human behavior let's take a look at how evolution has coded humans to behave.]]></description>
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