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Wednesday, February 28, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Fit For
Sisters
Andrew Luscutoff
Columnist
Curbing obesity
with public policy
Obesity has shown no
signs of slowing, and peo-
ple are suffering from many
different repercussions of a
growing waistline. Countries
like Mexico and China,
which now are exposed to
American eats, are seeing a
rise in obesity rates at a rapid
rate. What is going to stop
this? Should the government
step in to protect its people?
Clearly people cannot protect
themselves in a sea of snacks,
highly delicious fast foods,
and sugary beverages.
Everyone has an idea of
what they ought to eat, how-
ever it’s the application that’s
difficult. One cookie turns
into two, a small soda is now
24 oz., the supersize is only
City of
Sisters
launches
website
The City of Sisters has
launched a new website. This
newly redesigned website
offers quick and easy access
to essential information and
features.
The website has an updated
“What’s Happening” fea-
ture for announcements and
upcoming events and quick
links to the most visited sites.
“It has a clean, unclut-
tered design, improved func-
tionality, and enhanced con-
tent,” said City Manager
Brant Kucera. The new web-
site went live February 26,
and can be found at www.
ci.sisters.or.us.
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$1 extra for twice the food.
This is where some interven-
tion needs to take place.
Chile uses an aggressive
black and white labeling
system based on how much
sugar and fats are in the
foods. The more sugar, fats,
and additives the more warn-
ing labels. This approach has
two implications. First, the
labels tell consumers what
is often hidden on the back
of the label and misunder-
stood. The bigger implica-
tion is that it incentivises
food companies to re-formu-
late their products in order
to get a higher ranking. This
has already been very effec-
tive. It’s simple, and easy to
understand.
In some countries, nota-
bly Mexico, there are high
tax rates on sugary bever-
ages. At the rate of 10 percent
this is a high penalty to get a
large soft drink when other
non-soda beverages have no
such tax. This has resulted
in a decline of six percent on
soda sales. While still new, it
is unknown yet whether this
will be slowing Mexico’s
growing obesity and diabe-
tes epidemic. Certain U.S.
cities have followed suit.
Portland, Oregon, votes in
May whether or not to tax
sugary beverages.
Another way awareness
has been brought to consum-
ers is fast-food menu label-
ing. It is now transparent
how many calories are in
that McDouble with cheese.
This puts nutritional infor-
mation front and center at
the register when someone
is ordering the food. This has
been an incentive for food
companies to adopt healthier
menus. Whether or not this
has slowed fast-food con-
sumption is arguable.
Marketing is being scru-
tinized as often what’s mar-
keted toward children are
junk foods high in sugar and
fat. Chile, a country who
is suffering dire childhood
obesity, removed all cartoon
characters from foods and cut
television advertising to chil-
dren — an aggressive step
which may prove effective.
In a country like the USA,
politics may stand in the
way as so many of the food
companies carry significant
weight in the pocketbooks of
our elected representatives.
With obesity not slow-
ing anytime soon, there are
public-health measures being
taken to curb it. Whether or
not they will be effective
is yet to be seen. Is this the
role of the government, our
education system, or par-
enting? Whoever we deem
most responsible, there cer-
tainly needs to be a reform.
Our society cannot bear the
costs. Healthcare, workforce,
military, etc. all suffer from
so many of the effects of
obesity.
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★ ★ ★ SYDNEY HEAD ★ ★ ★ ETHAN MARTIN ★ ★ ★
Head, Martin January Athletes of the Month
Sisters Outlaws Sydney
Head and Ethan Martin
have parlayed dedication
and leadership qualities into
Athlete of the Month honors
for January 2018.
Head is a Junior Captain
on the girls basketball team
team. Her coach Alan Von
Stein reports that in the
month of January she almost
doubled her shooting effi-
ciency improving from 20
percent in December to 37
percent in the month. She
leads her team in deflections
and steals per game.
“She is all about team,
not being focused on per-
sonal stats, putting the wel-
fare of the team first,” Von
Stein said.
Sydney moved to Sisters
at age 3. She is a three-sport
athlete, a two-time state vol-
leyball champion and was
named first team all-league
in lacrosse this past season.
“She is a excellent leader
on the basketball team, lead-
ing by example and helping
develop younger players,”
Von Stein said.
In her free time she
enjoys spending time with
her family and enjoys
camping and boating. She
hopes to go into the med-
ical field.
Ethan Martin is only
a sophomore in high
school but has been
wrestling varsity for the
team for the last two
years.
“Ethan is a big guy
for how young he
is and he has had to
wrestle in the 182 and
195 weight classes,”
Coach John Downs
reports. “These are
weight classes that are
usually reserved for
RAPHY juniors and seniors.
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If you are a fresh-
man or sophomore
in these big weight
classes it’s kind of
rough going.”
Even with the
stress of wrestling
in the bigger weight
classes and work-
ing twice as hard,
Ethan still has
had time to keep
his grades up.
He made a huge
impact in the
Sky Em League,
especially over
the past month,
where he finished
with a Sky Em League
record of 5-1 and had the
second-best overall record
on the team, just behind
senior Casey Warburton with
17 wins and 9 losses. At the
regional tournament seed-
ing meeting of 12 teams,
Ethan was voted third seed
amongst all the coaches.
“The last two seasons
of the program have been
tough with snowmageddon
last year effecting travel and
other issues this year but
Ethan has always stuck it out
and worked hard in practice
and wrestled tough at every
match we could get him,”
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Downs said. “With eight
seniors graduating from the
team this year, Ethan is one
of the top wrestlers on the
team that the guys will look
to as a leader for the next
couple years. I only see more
success for Ethan’s wrestling
career these next two years
and I’m so excited that he
informed me that he will also
be wrestling Freestyle and
Greco-Roman during our
mat club season. This will
only improve his wrestling
ability. I am proud of Ethan
and his commitment to his
family, grades, and the sport
of wrestling.”