Leave our sugary foods/drinks alone!

rob316 · 10-05-2018 02:21PM #1

I'm healthy, not overweight why can't I have a sugary drink or sweet as its supposed to be when I feel like.

The obsession with taking sugar which is a natural substance and reducing it with artificial sweeteners is wrong. Most chocolate you buy now doesn't taste right, they took the sugar out of lucozade even.

Give me my full sugar junk!

arybvtcw0eolkf · 10-05-2018 02:24PM

'Sup sweetheart

inter arma · 10-05-2018 02:26PM

That story has left me with a sour taste in my mouth.

10-05-2018 02:27PM

A 6 pack of coke went from 3 euro up to 4.20 in my local shop, I'm not fat either, why should I have to pay for fatties?

rob316 · 10-05-2018 02:33PM

I just had a lucozade earlier and it was rotten. I heard they changed it but didn't know it now had 66% less sugar. I mean people bought it was for the sugar kick!

gozunda · 10-05-2018 02:35PM

rob316 wrote: »

I'm healthy, not overweight why can't I have a sugary drink or sweet as its supposed to be when I feel like.

The obsession with taking sugar which is a natural substance and reducing it with artificial sweeteners is wrong. Most chocolate you buy now doesn't taste right, they took the sugar out of lucozade even.

Give me my full sugar junk!

I don't really drink lemonade etc however I picked up a bottle off the shelf recently and I noticed that soft drinks manufacturers have replaced sugar with a concoction of artificial sweeteners and chemically created sugars. Lovely....

I wouldn't use them as weed killer tbh. A bit like the original margarine craze years ago which then turned out was quite unhealthy with some margarines being pulled off the market due to health concerns. The same thing I reckon will happen with all these highly processed plant based 'milk' alternatives which are often loaded with additives and god knows what else - but that are being promoted big time as a 'healthy alternative' Though to what? Whitewash?

The future slogan will be "I cant believe it's not real!" Because more than likley it will be some artifically derived lab based franken-food or liquid...

Your Face · 10-05-2018 02:35PM

Just don't go into shops and ask the staff to give you some sugar.

gozunda · 10-05-2018 02:39PM

Fieldog wrote: »

A 6 pack of coke went from 3 euro up to 4.20 in my local shop, I'm not fat either, why should I have to pay for fatties?

I wouldn't connect those carrying extra weight with sugared drinks though.

I've always noticed that it's the low or zero sugar products which are most widely consumed. Gives pause for thought that tbh.

OldMrBrennan83 · 10-05-2018 02:42PM

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10-05-2018 02:44PM

It doesn't matter if you're overweight or not. It's terrible for you and should be regulated as such.

super_furry · 10-05-2018 02:46PM

It's your fault for being poor. Just get a better job and improve yourself.

rob316 · 10-05-2018 02:51PM

gozunda wrote: »

I don't realky drink lemonade etc however I picked up a bottle off the shelf recently and I noticed that soft drinks manufacturers have replaced sugar with a concoction of artificial sweeteners and chemically created sugars. Lovely....

I wouldn't use them as weed killer tbh. A bit like the original margarine craze years ago which then turned out was quite unhealthy with some margarines being pulled off the market due to health concerns. The same thing I reckon will happen with all these highly processed plant based 'milks' which are often loaded with additives and god knows what else - but that are being promoted big time as a 'healthy alternative' Though to what? Whitewash?

It's like the diet drinks, they use Aspartame instead of sugar, the stuff is literally poison. Wife used to drink diet coke by the gallon, she stopped one day and says she never felt healthier. Eating habits, digestive problems all changed. Has a regular coke couple times a week now, much better.

I don't eat butter much but I never eat those butter spreads either, always off the block for me.

Comsuming something the way its meant to be is the way to go.

rob316 · 10-05-2018 02:52PM

super_furry wrote: »

It's your fault for being poor. Just get a better job and improve yourself.

I've no problem paying 50c extra for a full sugar version.

silverharp · 10-05-2018 02:54PM

Wait til Ryanair start weighing passengers and charging by the kilo

whiskeyman · 10-05-2018 02:56PM

Soon sugar sandwiches will be the food of the elite during matchdays, replacing the common prawn sang...

valoren · 10-05-2018 03:01PM

It would be brilliant if governments banned advertising of sugary drinks.
If they did then you should buy the shares of the big drink companies.
They won't have to spend the money on advertising and people will still buy the drinks anyway.

Phillip Morris, the tobacco company, was one of the best investments you could have made in the 20th century.
They made a product that costs in the cents to produce but was sold in the dollars and with litigation towards the end of the century, such companies could no longer legally advertise.

Still the same business was intact and the companies showered investors with cash dividends that were guaranteed with such an addictive product. So much so that if you invested $1,000 in PM stock in the 50's it would be worth $10 million today assuming dividends reinvested.

So I say go after the companies and get them to free up some of that cash for investors. Mwuhahahaha!

Graces7 · 10-05-2018 03:29PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

Soon sugar sandwiches will be the food of the elite during matchdays, replacing the common prawn sang...

We warbabies were raised on sugar sandwiches IF would get the sugar.. rationed for many years..

Boom_Bap · 10-05-2018 03:32PM

Look at the amount of fat kids there are. Just look at them bouncing along stuffing their faces with sweets and downing bottles of fizzy pop by the gallon. It's shocking.

I hope the next thing that happens is that Deli counters stop serving kids in uniforms breakfast rolls and jambons in the mornings.

_Brian · 10-05-2018 03:36PM

rob316 wrote: »

It's like the diet drinks, they use Aspartame instead of sugar, the stuff is literally poison. Wife used to drink diet coke by the gallon, she stopped one day and says she never felt healthier. Eating habits, digestive problems all changed. Has a regular coke couple times a week now, much better.

I don't eat butter much but I never eat those butter spreads either, always off the block for me.

Comsuming something the way its meant to be is the way to go.

Seriously.. "she used to drink diet coke by the gallon"
Not much wonder when she gave it up she felt better,

But with all the myriad of rubish in it you pick out the sweetner as the problem... Seriously, as if she could drink regular coke by the galon and be ok..

When people improve their diet they feel better..

Wanderer2010 · 10-05-2018 04:08PM

Sugar is loaded into most processed foods and bread and alcohol etc and yet only sugary drinks are being taxed, doesn't make much sense and its in effect saying that only extra sugar in drinks causes obesity and not the extra sugar in all the other foods/drinks.

Graces7 · 10-05-2018 04:14PM

They have gone too far now.. I just got a new packet of Rennies with the groceries. Put one in my mouth and wondered what it was... The packet says SUGAR FREE and they taste sickly sweet ..

chrissb8 · 10-05-2018 04:16PM

silverharp wrote: »

Wait til Ryanair start weighing passengers and charging by the kilo

Hopefully, might make the big uns realise that it's not normal to be that large.

AllForIt · 10-05-2018 05:58PM

Obesity in children is largely due to sugar, rather than fat, lack of exercise or anything else. Once a child gets a taste for sweet stuff, non-sweat stuff like veg becomes completely bland and tasteless to them. That's a double whammy because not only are they getting all those unnecessary calories but even worse in my opinion, they are not getting the nutrition from vegetables they need for normal functioning growth. Some children never even get a chance to develop a taste for vegetables. This nutritional neglect also affects their mood and mental health and I have heard anecdotal evidence about an increase in 'cranky' young children at school where a lack of ability to concentrate for sustained period is evident.

Obesity is a hugely serious problem and the problem must be tackled. Frankly I think education is the answer rather than tax, but the problem is some parents are thick or just feckless and raising taxes will at least put it out there that we accept as a society that sugar is bad for you when consumed in above minimal amounts in the same way we all accept that smoking if very bad for you, so hopefully the message will be received by every person/parent in the land. I would also hugely increase taxes for those huge soft drinks companies like coca-cola. It's obscene how much profits they make for just producing a sugary drink.

Graces7 · 10-05-2018 06:05PM

AllForIt wrote: »

Obesity in children is largely due to sugar, rather than fat, lack of exercise or anything else. Once a child gets a taste for sweet stuff, non-sweat stuff like veg becomes completely bland and tasteless to them. That's a double whammy because not only are they getting all those unnecessary calories but even worse in my opinion, they are not getting the nutrition from vegetables they need for normal functioning growth. Some children never even get a chance to develop a taste for vegetables. This nutritional neglect also affects their mood and mental health and I have heard anecdotal evidence about an increase in 'cranky' young children at school where a lack of ability to concentrate for sustained period is evident.

The colloquial term is "all sugared up". They get high, literally.

LirW · 10-05-2018 06:16PM

AllForIt wrote: »

Obesity in children is largely due to sugar, rather than fat, lack of exercise or anything else. Once a child gets a taste for sweet stuff, non-sweat stuff like veg becomes completely bland and tasteless to them. That's a double whammy because not only are they getting all those unnecessary calories but even worse in my opinion, they are not getting the nutrition from vegetables they need for normal functioning growth. Some children never even get a chance to develop a taste for vegetables. This nutritional neglect also affects their mood and mental health and I have heard anecdotal evidence about an increase in 'cranky' young children at school where a lack of ability to concentrate for sustained period is evident.

Or no matter how hard you try to make it attractive to them, they're just little pr1cks and simply don't eat it like pretty much anything else you serve them. When you pack them veg and fruit in funny shapes and decorated and they basically go for a 5k walk every day.
Whenever I see people claiming their kids eat stuff like seaweed crisps I'd love to know how because the older one here wouldn't even touch anything that's green.

Yes, a badly introduced diet is very bad for children's health but they certainly don't make it easy, some of them at least.

Graces7 · 10-05-2018 06:26PM

LirW wrote: »

Or no matter how hard you try to make it attractive to them, they're just little pr1cks and simply don't eat it like pretty much anything else you serve them. When you pack them veg and fruit in funny shapes and decorated and they basically go for a 5k walk every day.
Whenever I see people claiming their kids eat stuff like seaweed crisps I'd love to know how because the older one here wouldn't even touch anything that's green.

Yes, a badly introduced diet is very bad for children's health but they certainly don't make it easy, some of them at least.

Lovely when you see a small child in a supermarket trolley chewing an apple or a bread roll.

That is when to start them.

LirW · 10-05-2018 06:28PM

Graces7 wrote: »

Lovely when you see a small child in a supermarket trolley chewing an apple or a bread roll.

That is when to start them.

They go from good and eating apple to refusing anything but chicken nuggets in a heartbeat. I have a little picky sh1t here, the other one is grand and eats pretty much anything. Headwreck it is.

Graces7 · 10-05-2018 06:47PM

LirW wrote: »

They go from good and eating apple to refusing anything but chicken nuggets in a heartbeat. I have a little picky sh1t here, the other one is grand and eats pretty much anything. Headwreck it is.

Hate to ask but who first gives them chicken nuggets!

lol! Dreadful things!

Ubbquittious · 10-05-2018 07:22PM

What bates me dead is how they are able to use phosphoric acid as a food ingredient. An industrial chemical with no nutritional value at all. Seriously nasty stuff

DEFTLEFTHAND · 10-05-2018 07:25PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It doesn't matter if you're overweight or not. It's terrible for you and should be regulated as such.

His body, his choice

10-05-2018 07:36PM

I just hope they leave club orange and coke alone, so that when I do want an occasional soft drink that tastes like they used to, it is posible to get one. They have even ruined san pellegrino now. A premium soft drink being sweetened partially with non-sugar sweeteners is a complete joke. A complete mess of a recipe now. Utterly unsatisfying. Just like the rest of them. If somebody got a 2 litre bottle of 7 up, filled it to about one litre with the old recipe and the rest with water and a bit of artificial sweetener, that is what the new recipe is. They should at least come out and admit it doesn't taste as good as before, say it to our faces.

Leave our sugary foods/drinks alone!

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