Would a tax on sugary soft drinks result in improved health benefits for the people of New York? According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the answer may be yes. According to New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Friedan and Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and a professor at Yale University, a sugar tax would result in health benefits no matter how revenue from the taxing of soft drinks would be spent.

The countdown to New Year’s Eve 2009 is drawing nearer each day. We expect light posting of chiropractic classifieds during the days leading up to January 1, 2009. Unless chiropractors are posting classifieds during their time off from practice, consider this the last classified advertising round up for 2008. Wishing you all great health, abundance and prosperity in 2009!

Several interesting e-mails appeared on my desk last week, and I didn’t get a chance to address two of them, which I felt were fairly important. I do my best to get to e-mails that have been sent (not perfect) and almost always get a chance to check out blog comments. Earlier today, I covered why some may be getting deleted or marked as spam, good topic for a Sunday thought post.

An estimated 950,000 arthroscopic knee surgeries are reportedly performed each year in the United States, with recent research showing some interesting findings, the procedure is useless.