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UVM Medical Center Blog » Blog » obesity
obesity
on February 14, 2013 in Health Policy by Stephen Leffler, MD

Why I Support a Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

The average kid in America, depending on their age group, is drinking between 41 and 108 gallons of sugar sweetened beverages per year. Think about that for a minute. That’s up to 108 gallons of regular soda, sugar sweetened juice, and sports drinks, like Gatorade, PowerAde and Vitamin Water That’s between 35 and 90 pounds […]

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When Lisa Woodworth heard a commotion, she glanced When Lisa Woodworth heard a commotion, she glanced out her second-story window. Below, a “Code Team” of nurses were urgently resuscitating a woman who had collapsed outside the hospital. Then, a realization cascaded over her: “Oh my God, that’s my mother!” 

Claire Benoit – Lisa’s 75-year-old mother – was walking into Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Vermont, for a routine appointment when she suffered a heart attack and collapsed onto the concrete walkway a few steps from the hospital’s main entrance.

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“The whole family began bracing to say goodbye,” recalls Woodworth. “The odds weren’t good.” But when the doctor removed her breathing tube, “The first words out of her mouth were ‘I love you all. I love you all.’ And she just kept saying, ‘I love you all,’” says Woodworth. 

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