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bruh just ban all sugary drinks, it's not that hard
It's people like you that we can't have nice things. oh some Germans in Germany has started genociding Jews out of existence, so that must mean that all Germans are evil Nazis. you only consider moderation when their is a obvious utility. like oh you don't need alcohol to survive, but because some people get addicted to alcohol. we must ban alcohol, so no one will get addicted ever again. we seriously need to learn moderation and nuance. we really need to collectively agree that I'm not your mom and neither is the government. Otherwise we will be asking ourselves, what is the point of enjoyment? People who are miserable breath just fine, and if you enjoy something too much you might get addicted.
I agree completely with your comment but I think you probably shouldn’t have brought the Holocaust into it really!
Perhaps, but I feel like a second level comment was too early to invoke it. Also, there's also the common corollary that whoever invokes Goodwin's law definitionally loses the debate...
no.
Yes, definitely.
and alcohol, weed, meat, and fast food.
then you'll probably end up with a black market of sugary drinks, and people will go to great lengths to get it.
It's almost as if this happened before with something else
Just ban the sale and don’t enforce it on the black market. That would cover like 90%. It’s not like soda would be banned entirely, so it’s not like any other example. Just drink Coke Zero (or your flavor preference)
I have no idea why, but I get horrible heartburn from Coke Zero and Pepsi Max. I don't get that from almost nothing else.
It's more nuanced than that. In the case of sugary drinks however, since they are really easy to make, you won't even need a black market.
There's nothing inherently wrong with sugary drinks. It's just how often you have them.
Some people don't like sugar free and sweeteners come with their own problems.
There is something inherently wrong with them. It's liquefied nutrition that's been designed to create an addiction and provide nothing but calories. It's marketed as a companion to meals, or as sports drinks, or as a convenient "pick me up". It's marketed to children, to poor people without alternatives. They are inherently predatory and harmful to your health.
Consuming sucrose or fructose also results in fat being generated in the liver. It's like alcohol and less than ideal.
Exactly. Dose makes the poison. Also, artificially sweetened drinks are all garbage.
They do have their place- just that place isn't "something you can just drink every day without thinking about"
I tried for a while to think of their place but there's nothing I would say is absolutely necessary. What is their place?
They're a dessert, treat them like you would ice cream or a chocolate bar instead of treating them like water
Unpopular opinion: The really bad ones, not talking about orange juice here, should be treated similarly to energy drinks. Banned for under 16 and taxed high.
Orange Juice is not meaningfully better than most sugar heavy drinks.
I have this argument with my wife a lot. She says that because the OJ is natural sugar it's okay.
But the high-fructose corn syrup used in a cola is also natural sugar in the sense that it was grown on a farm. There even happens to be less of it in your average soda than in juice.
And I'm not really saying that you should drink soda instead of juice because it's healthier, but somehow fruit juice is one of those things people think is good for them.
I'd argue that natural non filtered orange juice is healthier because you drink it with all the fiber from the fruit, making the sugar absorption slower. A non filtered OJ is closer to eating a fruit than those industrial ones that finely filter everything to be just a colored sugary water.
Sure, but how many people actually know how commercial orange juice is produced and bother seeking out the real stuff?
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300164558/squeezed/
I mean, you just need to make an OJ and drink it and then have an industrial one. The difference, even without the knowledge, is noticeable. Funny thing is, at least where I live, making an OJ at home is cheaper than buying the industrial one
Something I like in some of Europe is that food just has a rating on it. Not only are they stricter about food pretending to sound healthy it will just straight say this juice is a D.
In the US every company spends millions to make their sugar appear more healthy and it works.