also christina gupta, a senior health planner has been a great advisor on this issue as well and roberto vargas from the university of san francisco health policy program and dr. laura smith who is a professor of health policy at ucsf who have been visors on this study and advising us on the impact of sugar sweetened beverages. at public comment i just want to acknowledge beatrice cardenas duncan who is a community leader and active with groups like shape up sf and the labor movement as well is here. breks board of education board of education president is here. and corner store coalition and an organizer with t ndc and todd davis who has been a great leader in our neighborhood as well. they will be speaking at public comment. we also have a number of other folks from different communities that will speak a little bit later. before i introduce the first speaker, i want to know if my colleagues have any opening remarks. >> supervisor wiener? >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you supervisor mar for your work and your partnership on this important issue. the coalition that has been formin

i skipped over christina gupta who is senior health planner from the department of public health. >> thank you supervisors. so, i just wanted to give you a little bit of background this afternoon about why the public health field has been looking at sugary drinks as an issue. i wanted to start talking about what happens to sugar when it's in our bodies. sugar suppresses our bodies ability to consume fat. our body is the first one -- do you have an extra copy of the pregnancy -- presentation that you are making? >> i will make copies. >> so it suppresses our ability to burn fat. so when we eat sugar in high quantities our body priorities first burning the sugar before it starts burning the food that you might consume with that drink. so let's say you have a frappuccino with breakfast and a bagel. your body is not going to start working on that other food. if you haven't fully processed that by the time you have your next sugary item. that other food may not get processed and turns into fat in your body. next, the way that sugar is metabolized is different than natural sugars. it's oft

i also want to say that disparities that christina gupta are bringing awareness to our very critical areas and the maps showing that it's a citywide problem. but again, the funds as we come up with one proposal for the battle we are looking very carefully at targeting in the most appropriate and effective ways to communities that are the most that face the most health disparities. i also want to say how to report shows how urgent the report is before many of us and hope we move as quickly as possible because there is nothing more as local legislators as the health of our children in our community. i want to mention that the nation of mexico's focus on the environment cause by harmful drink companies and junk food companies is critical but our measure is a very modest one that is focusing on the harm created by that environment and really targeting it to physical activity in and out of school and healthy nutrition and education in our communities. the advertising is going on in the environment that's created by big soda and sugar sweet and beverage companies is overwhelming. it's abou