dr. chung from the medical society is here to address that as well. the first thing i want to do i want to take a home message from the harvard school of public health the problem is sugary drinks include problems of obesity and heart disease. the evidence is the soft drink is on the rise and leading to health problems. i want everybody to understand that sugar is different number one and number 2 sugary drinks are worse. here are some key take home messages the first one is that liquid calculations are not counted by your body if you drink 2 hundred calories your body doesn't know that. this is really important it is different from eating 2 hundred calories of food. the second thing when we get sugary drinks we flood our liver with problems. when i drink a sugary drink you get a rise in insulin it's your father stored harmony it caused your body to store fat and the next thing sugar can be addictive. there is no control on how much sugar is added to an item when you pick up it won't say the daily requirement for sugar our body is not required for tha

i wanted to ask if doctor argon or dr. chung could address what dr. argon talked about the addiction people in the population that maybe become addicted to sugar sweetened befrngz. i know that from new books sugar salt and fat many of the big soda corporations additional food processing companies look for a point where we know if you have the sugar and salt and fat they know it effects the brain and put certain amounts into their processed food to get people to buy the harmful product can you talk about the addictive and a half of the sugary beverages >> this is an area there's published materials that is compared across the criteria we consider for addiction. this doesn't happen for all people but what happiness when you become addicted to a substance when you don't become the substance you become depressed so to feel normal you seek it. we have an employee of the public health department that's addicted to sugar. if you take to this employee this employee will sound like it's almost this person is talking about alcoholic so this problem is there i'm

dr. lawrence chung who's the president of the medical society and i think today's hearing on the impact of sugar sweetened drinks on the asian pacific islander communities is a historic occasion to use fats and experience and data to shatter the minor things that the asian pacific islander are not impacted by the sugar beverages. as documented by an overwhelmingly body of

dr. lawrence chung who's the president of the medical society and i think today's hearing on the impact of sugar sweetened drinks on the asian pacific islander communities is a historic occasion to use fats and experience and data to shatter the minor things that the asian pacific islander are not impacted by the sugar beverages. as documented by an overwhelmingly body of research and personal stories the offer consumption of sugary beverages recent research the asian pacific islander and teens are being targeted by big soda and among energy drinks in 2010 one in 3 san francisco children and condolence were obese over and over overweight. look to one side of you at least one of the 3 people sitting in this room who are if we were all children would be obese or overweight and if what we side nothing a third of the population will be obese and face the sugars like diabetes and many other health problems. also youth and adolescence are up for sleep disorders and asthma and others. each extra can of the sodas and energy drinks each one me drink per day increases a child's likelyness of becomin