If you possess an extreme porn video that you were actually involved in, it can be a defence to prove that you were actually involved in the video (good luck proving that). This of course depends on the type of content, for example even though bestiality may well be legal you could still be arrested for having a video of it, a perfect legal contradiction but I digress.
Otherwise it doesn't matter whether the video was commercial in nature or something you downloaded off Redtube etc. This is why I think everyone should use VPN's and full disk encryption, because common sense does just not cut it, without a law degree you basically have no way of knowing what ridiculous laws you could be running afoul of..
This is the unfortunate problem with having an NHS style system like we do, it discourages personal responsibility because your contributions into the system are the same regardless of how badly you choose to live.
Where on earth did you get those figures from?
Coke is the top seller but thsts including zero and diet redbull is very far down the list
Coca-Cola Classic. Our original and iconic cola is still our top-seller. However, 43% of the cola we now sell is made up of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke or Coca-Cola Life, which have less or no sugar.
The focus on its three remaining variants seems to have paid off. Growth has mainly come from the revamped Coke Zero Sugar, which added an extra £39m to its sales - an increase of 37% on the year before to £144.2m. By contrast, sales of the larger Diet Coke (£421m) and Classic (£576.3m) variants remained relatively flat with just over £6.5m growth between them.
When you take into account the £/litre the 'own brand' stuff is likely to be outselling Coca Cola in volume by quite a margin. If the 'own brands' changed all their recipes (which most did so they can still hit the magic price point) it would have a huge difference to how much sugar people are consuming. That combined with the fact that poorer households are also more likely to be the ones that are overweight and are also more likely to be the ones buying cheaper own brand products its very much a double whammy.
There are some really compelling reasons as to why the 'sugar tax' is likely to work in the long term and looking at sales in £ is a flawed argument.
The focus on its three remaining variants seems to have paid off. Growth has mainly come from the revamped Coke Zero Sugar, which added an extra £39m to its sales - an increase of 37% on the year before to £144.2m. By contrast, sales of the larger Diet Coke (£421m) and Classic (£576.3m) variants remained relatively flat with just over £6.5m growth between them
The plans will see a 1.75 litre bottle of Coke shrink to 1.5 litres and at the same time increase in price by 20p to £1.99. The price of a 500ml bottle is also increasing, from £1.09 to £1.25. The new price means the cost of a half-litre bottle will have soared 25% in a matter of months, as they were just £1 until last autumn.
Those stats are from 2017 before all the changes came in so not very reflective of the current situation (I.E it doesn't show the big drop in Diet Coke sales due to the launch of Coke Zero Sugar). It's also worth noting that the Red Bull bar includes all types of Red Bull (including their diet) plus it will include sales of Red Bull with Vodka in clubs.Here's one showing a breakdown per actual beverage;
https://www.statista.com/statistics...united-kingdom-uk-by-convenience-sales-value/
We'll have to see in the next few years what happens, my prediction is the sugar tax in it's current design won't really make much difference in the obesity crisis.
One thing that's interesting, is that there's no doubt that the amount of low and zero calorie drinks being consumed has risen drastically in the last few years (that's something we can all agree on). But there doesn't seem to be any evidence that it's made any dent in the obesity problem. If sugar-laden drinks are heavily implicated in the obesity crisis - and at the same time people are moving away from them, why is the obesity problem growing in size?
There seems to be a growing number of studies that show there's no benefit to consuming low or zero calorie drinks over full sugar variants, to help with weight loss, which is pretty interesting. Some studies claim that low/zero calorie drinks make you hungrier, others claim that the hit of a sweet taste with zero calories can mess up your bodies metabolic and hormonal reactions.
https://news.yale.edu/2017/08/10/sweet-taste-not-just-calories-dictates-metabolic-response
We'll have to see in the next few years what happens, my prediction is the sugar tax in it's current design won't really make much difference in the obesity crisis.
One thing that's interesting, is that there's no doubt that the amount of low and zero calorie drinks being consumed has risen drastically in the last few years (that's something we can all agree on). But there doesn't seem to be any evidence that it's made any dent in the obesity problem. If sugar-laden drinks are heavily implicated in the obesity crisis - and at the same time people are moving away from them, why is the obesity problem growing in size?
There seems to be a growing number of studies that show there's no benefit to consuming low or zero calorie drinks over full sugar variants, to help with weight loss, which is pretty interesting. Some studies claim that low/zero calorie drinks make you hungrier, others claim that the hit of a sweet taste with zero calories can mess up your bodies metabolic and hormonal reactions.
https://news.yale.edu/2017/08/10/sweet-taste-not-just-calories-dictates-metabolic-response
But it is far to simplistic in any case to blame obesity on high sugar diets. It is a combination of various diet factors as well as lifestyle. High sugar is really fine if you do a lot of exercise
NB Primary funding for the study was provided by the National Institutes of Health and PepsiCo.
Just saying
I've seen quite a few articles stating that the zero calorie drinks ten to have the same effect as the sugar drinks in terms of hormone response.
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Because the effects are not as predictable and repeatable, with larger variances between b people and between samples.If that was true aspartame wpuld be a diabetes medication
It is almost all soft drinks now. Sprite, Fanta, Dr Pepper, Ribena, Tango, Lilt, Monster and Relentless.Why have some drink such as Lucozade and Iron bru had vast amounts of sugar taken out of them (29g > 11g) but coke and different variety's of coke have not?