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For those of you who are ready for Spring but the snow is still falling, here is your chance to add some sunny citrus to your world.  The markets are flooded with all kinds of oranges, lemons and limes right now.  If you have a stuffy nose the extra vitamin C is helpful.  Some of you might be trying to wean yourselves off of traditional, mass produced, industrial sodas.  I know some of my Ten in ’10 pals are trying to clean up  and shed the soda thing.

The thoughts of sunny citrus were provoked from a not so sunny realization:

I was stopped in my tracks by a blog post I read the other day at 5 Second Rule simply titled Soda. I really dig Cheryl’s blog.  Her posts are well thought out, beautifully photographed and extremely informative.  Being that I don’t watch TV or really listen to mass produced media, folks like Cheryl have become a great source of alerting me to current events.  At least events regarding food!  My daily news updates come in the form of reading my buddies blogs.  Way more interesting!!

Reading her Soda post I became aware of the tax they are trying to impose on this sugar & chemical ridden, artificial beverage.  From Cheryl’s post I clicked over to Mark Bittman’s article “A Sin we Sip Instead of Smoke?” Here he states:

“……Michelle Obama. And a growing number of public health advocates are pushing for even more aggressive actions, urging that soda be treated like tobacco: with taxes, warning labels and a massive public health marketing campaign, all to discourage consumption.”

Thats right folks.  Perhaps one day we can decrease obesity in our children and help to prevent all the diabetes going on out there.  No one is saying soda will go away.  Can we just work together and start making some “right” choices?  Let’s lead by example….for our children!

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