Food Stamp Soda Ban now poses a host of benefits according to a new study, including health and monetary ones. The new study proposes that there are going to be serious health benefits once the Food Stamp Soda Ban, which bans people from buying soda or sugary drinks with food stamps, is implemented.
Researchers of the new study have discovered that because of the Food Stamp Soda Ban where welfare recipients will be barred from buying soda, obesity amongst 140,000 kids could now be avoided, and Type 2 diabetes in 240,000 adults could be prevented.
The new study on the Food Stamp Soda Ban, published in the June issue of the academic journal Health Affairs, has reportedly done implemented by the medical researchers at Stanford University medical researchers.
Lead researcher Sanjay Basu, an assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center said, "It's as big an impact as I've seen."
According to Basu, researchers of the university began the study to explore disapproval on the federal food stamp program, which is also officially called the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP). The program includes the Food Stamp Soda Ban, which subsidizes the purchase of sugary drinks that offer no nutritional value.
Though it is clear that a Food Stamp Soda Ban will prevent disease, according to HLN TV, the ban might actually not be possible. This is because in 2011, when mayor Michael Bloomberg's planned to limit the sales of soda for those using EBT cards in New York City, it was reportedly rejected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In 2013, Bloomberg and 17 other mayors have also written to Congress asking for the Food Stamp Soda Ban, banning sugary drinks from food stamps. A Tennessee Republican, Rep. and doctor Phil Roe has also proposed new limits on food stamps last year, banning the use for junk food. However, measure still hasn't been considered by a committee.
In Louisiana though, though a Food Stamp Soda Ban cannot be implemented, the state is considering a dissimilar strategy as to limiting welfare recipients on spending their money, reports KHON2. As it were, a proposed new law would be preventing the public from spending welfare cash at tattoo parlors, liquor stores and strip joints.
Through the years, it has been found that poor families on food stamps are likely to have higher rates of obesity and diabetes than the rest of the population who don't live on food stamps, according to quite a few studies.
Basu said, "There are complaints that (taxpayers) are getting charged twice, once for the SNAP program and then again for the Medicaid and Medicare costs when people get diseases."
Food Stamp Soda Ban might not be immediately possible, but it is a hope that the proper authorities might consider it as the future of healthy Americans lies in its implementation. CNN reports that overall, obesity rates among food stamps users would go down by 2.4% over 10 years if the Food Stamp Soda Ban pushes through.
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