1575: What If Hospitals Stopped Selling Sugar-Sweetened Food & Beverages?

Today we have a special JIMMY RANTS on The LLVLC Show for you. Jimmy is on his much deserved six-month sabbatical so we are bringing you some of the best content from Jimmy’s daily show JIMMY RANTS. Be sure to bookmark JimmyRants.com and dig through all of the content there during Jimmy’s time away. Paid advertisement “People think of hospitals as the place where health begins. Why isn’t a hospital the first place to lead the way to health?” Jimmy Moore Paid advertisement What would happen if hospitals took the leadership on being a part of the solution to the obesity and chronic disease epidemics by making a policy to prevent sugary-sweetened beverages like soda, fruit juice, energy drinks, and chocolate milk from being sold in vending machines and in cafeterias in their hospitals? It could make a profound impact and it’s already happened in the little town of Reston, West Virginia where a family doctor there named Dr. Mark Cucuzzella began lobbying for it several years ago–and now it’s finally happened! Read the press release about it below. Jefferson Medical Center announces initiative to eliminate sugar-sweetened beverages: https://wvumedicine.org/news/article/jefferson-medical-center-announces-initiative-to-eliminate-sugar-sweetened-beverages/ This is incredible news to health podcaster and international bestselling author of KETO CLARITY Jimmy Moore who says hospitals have the great responsibility to be the standard bearer for healthy living and that making this removal of sugary drinks (and maybe down the line sugary food, too!) catch on across the United States would be nothing but a positive thing for the collective health. Listen to Jimmy share more about this exciting news in this episode.