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 forming in sa

roberto vargas pointed out area code 94124 on the bottom side of the further eastern zip code of the city and supervisor cohen raised concern about that, she asked about the fillmore district. it's areas with heavily low in come population and african americans and people of color and heavily on the eastern neighborhoods in the city and a little bit up there in china down toun and tenderloin and other spots. >> that is correct. so in terms of the a sugar that we are consuming, average americans are consuming about 22 teaspoons a day and recommended that men not have more than 9 teaspoons and women and children 3. >> for a 20 ounce. >> i was looking at the can assuming that people are still drinking the cans and not the 20 ounceers. even the small size would blow that recommendation out for the day. the graphic just represents that and roberto was get to go that as well in terms of the fact that sugar drinks really impact our entire system, every part of our body. we don't have a lot of information on the impact on oral health . we know it impacts oral health. children under the age o

my name is roberto vargas, i work at the clinical and translational science community and health scienceprogram at ucsf. with regards to differential prices, you pointed to the example in nordic countries. subsidization of -- subsidizing beer, heavy taxes on alcohol. do we have any other examples of that? has there been any testing of that with regards to sugar beverages? >> no, there has been no testing. not that i know of. what i can say is that there is one study out of harvard where they change the price in the hospital cafeteria to see whether or not they could get people off sugar sweetened beverages. they had to change the price to to change the price significantly. we are about to embark on the study at ucsf that the head of food services is the principal investigator on, where we will try to do the same thing in a hospital setting, which is very different than the general setting. but hospitals have to start this. the bottom line is -- it used to be the people smoked in hospitals. and now they do not. in fact, hospitals were the first place is to ban smoking entirely. and we wil