This 'sugar tax' crap is doing my head in!

[jpaul]

A can of drink with less sugar added to it isn't diet. For example, a 330ml can of reduced sugar 7-Up contains 26g of sugar. Almost the entire recommended maximum daily intake for an adult in one 330ml can is very far from being a diet drink.

There is probably even complacency amongst consumers/parents now with respect to the terminology of reduced sugar - we can relax now
the packaging remains part of the attraction for children, so like the 'plain' cigarette packets for adults, why not legislate on this, at the minimum clearly communicating sugar content, or further, showing images of the impacts of diabetes/teeth etc. - but I suppose the drink manufacturers would say, what about confectionary and other sugary products.

Not sure who government employs as an advertising company for public health broadcasting/bill-boards but these could be improved too.


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Frijj is lush. Doesn’t matter if it is full of sugar if you are not drinking one every two hours

generation Z vocabulary according to Cambridge Analytica.?
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[Nasher]

I was in Marks and Spencer's today and they had an entire end section of fizzy drinks not one of which wasn't either reduced sugar or artificial sweeteners. They might have had something back on the non-refrigerated section maybe, but the "meal" drinks were all diet.

It was the same in Morrisons and Aldi when I last went those too :/

Only drinks loaded with aspartame. Which is just as bad as sugar really.

 

[Glaucus]

Only drinks loaded with aspartame. Which is just as bad as sugar really.

Where did you get that crap from.

 

[LeeUK]

It's those salad bowls the supermarkets sell that you need to watch, the little packet of dressing in them usually contain more bad stuff than a Big Mac.

 

[Flubble]

Where did you get that crap from.

i know you wasn't quoting me but my doctor told me not to have anything with aspartame, so i did, i swapped to full fat sugary instead and it stopped my heart palpitations, i've gone 6 years with no palps now. aspartame is bad stuff.

 

[Glaucus]

i know you wasn't quoting me but my kdoctor told me not to have anything with aspartame, so i did, i swapped to full fat sugary instead and it stopped my heart palpitations, i've gone 6 years with no palps now.

Aspartame is one of the most studies compounds in good history.
The rubbish about it found online is well rubbish.
How much were you drinking it can cause palpation a in a few individuals at very high levels.

 

[Flubble]

and yet here i am living proof it was bad lol

 

[Glaucus]

and yet here i am living proof it was bad lol

No, not only are you n=1 sugar is far far far worse. If you look at the science.

 

[MikeTheNative]

Hmmmm

papers and papers of medical research vs a random person's anecdote.

 

[Freakbro]

Hmmmm

papers and papers of medical research vs a random person's anecdote.

Random anecdote every time of course.....this is GD

 

[XeNoN89]

I've found over recent years i've started going for the sugar free versions of drinks anyway. Usually Pepsi Max or Coke Zero for example

 

[MikeTheNative]

I don't drink much fizzy drinks but when I do it's always sugar free as I don't like drinking my calories. (Obviously not including alcohol though )

 

[spoffle]

Hang on if industry response is to reduce sugar then the tax has worked perfectly has it not?

A lot of drinks now taste absolutely awful though, because sweaters taste like **** to a lot of people.

 

[spoffle]

i know you wasn't quoting me but my doctor told me not to have anything with aspartame, so i did, i swapped to full fat sugary instead and it stopped my heart palpitations, i've gone 6 years with no palps now. aspartame is bad stuff.

Sugar doesn't have fat in it.

 

[Tefal]

A lot of drinks now taste absolutely awful though, because sweaters taste like **** to a lot of people.

Great so maybe they'll drink even less of them and we'll solve some dental health problems too.

Doesn't cha ge the fact that this tax seems to have worked spectacularly well just in a completley differnt way than intended

 

[jpaul]

*delete* posting seems corrupted

 

[Deleted member 66701]

and yet here i am living proof it was bad lol

And here ladies and gents, is what a placebo looks like.

 

[jpaul]

A can of drink with less sugar added to it isn't diet. For example, a 330ml can of reduced sugar 7-Up contains 26g of sugar. Almost the entire recommended maximum daily intake for an adult in one 330ml can is very far from being a diet drink.

need a hashtag to post offenders

 

[Angilion]

A lot of drinks now taste absolutely awful though, because sweaters taste like **** to a lot of people.

Sweaters aren't meant for eating! There are much better ways of getting enough fibre than eating wool!

I used to drink sugary pop. I switched to pop sweetened with artificial sweeteners rather than sugar. It tasted wrong to me for a couple of weeks. Then I got used to it. Now sugary pop tastes wrong to me. It's mainly a matter of what you're used to. Nowadays, I drink water instead most of the time. It's much better for me, it tastes fine when unflavoured and can be flavoured to pretty much whatever I want.

 

[spoffle]

Sweaters aren't meant for eating! There are much better ways of getting enough fibre than eating wool!

I used to drink sugary pop. I switched to pop sweetened with artificial sweeteners rather than sugar. It tasted wrong to me for a couple of weeks. Then I got used to it. Now sugary pop tastes wrong to me. It's mainly a matter of what you're used to. Nowadays, I drink water instead most of the time. It's much better for me, it tastes fine when unflavoured and can be flavoured to pretty much whatever I want.

Funny man! Stuff with sweetener tastes bitter to me. It tastes absolutely awful, it's genuinely something I'm not gonna get used to because it tastes so foul.