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UK Sugar Tax is the best!
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Sugar Tax was implemented here in Mexico and we are as fat as always.
Sugary stuff is still much cheaper than healthier alternatives.
Sugary stuff is still much cheaper than healthier alternatives.
They still charge the same for the full sugar version as they do for the sugar free one so fuck the sugar tax
I feel like the market in the US has already been moving toward sugar free for a long time, which is dumb because they're likely not better for you. I was looking at the drink aisle trying to find lemonade with sugar in it, and Country Time Lemonade was the only one with actual sugar. Everything else was a sugar substitute.
Do you use Stevia? I just started to use it today, put less than 1g on my coffee and it tastes Starbucks-sweet.
Great for people like you...less so for me. Sugar was replaced by sweeteners in many things and I can't stand the taste of sweeteners. For drinks I kind of now subsist off water or black tea. Honestly it makes me kind of miserable that even if I want to I can't get Ribena that doesn't taste of vomit.
The only drink with sweeteners I can really stand is Dr Pepper Zero which creates even more of a problem in pubs as most have dropped normal Coke in favour of drinks with sweeteners. I drive a lot so I don't drink while out...giving me a grand choice of iced tap water or go thirsty.
I wouldn't mind there being a sugar tax if the option to have drinks that don't taste like ass was still there. I would pay more in a heartbeat....as it is I don't have that choice and it sucks.
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I'm from México and agree with the OP. There is a lot more choices without sugar now. I can easily go to any OXXO and get drinks without sugar (I like Naranja & Nada and Ciel Exprim). A lot of the Mexican population is still fat because they keep drinking a 3 liter Coca-Cola with each meal, no matter the price.
Which likely confuses your body's metabolism and probably causes more down stream issues than it fixes. Go to Google Scholar, type in "diet soda" and go see what science tells you. You're probably just as likely to get a stroke, a heart attack, or diabetes from drinking diet soda as you are soda with sugar. And you're probably not even doing any good for your weight, or at least it is muddled enough there's no reason to prefer diet over sugar. It's just a marketing thing done by drink manufacturers to make people feel better about themselves.
This comes up in every single thread- people feel like because calories=0 that they're doing themselves a favor. No, you're not. You never get anything for free. If you're doing it for taste, that's one thing. But it isn't exactly healthy.
I've just moved to unsweetened everything, and trying to find products with no added sugar. I won't lie; the first few weeks is like detoxing or kicking an addiction. But after that you pallet kinda adjusts and things that were bland before are suddenly much more flavorful.
I drink black cherry polar springs seltzer for example and the cherry flavor now tastes slightly sweet even though there's no sugar.
I'll treat myself to sweets or desert a few times a month, but everything else try to get the sugar to as low as i can find it, so no sugar soft drinks, bread with no added sugar, grains with no added sugar, suger free dairy, and stay away from a lot of boxed stuff since its coated in sugar, fat, and salt to make it palatable.
Maybe, but health science is pretty hard to do because its hard to single out factors and correlations.
If I had a nickel for every time I was in the fast food line and someone ordered 4000 calories of fat, salt, and sugar and then added a "Diet coke"...
Plus that fast food option is so calorie packed you are hungry 90 minutes later, after eating 4000 calories.
My guess is people drinking any kind of soda regularly aren't really making the best nutritional choices.
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As harmless as sugar is for you, aka, it probably very harmful for you if you consume too much of it.
I drink about a liter of diet soda a day, and I've lost over 50 pounds in 6 months. Diet soda has had no impact on my weight loss.
If you want to drink 1200 calories of sugar water, be my guest. I'm sticking with my 0 calorie drinks and not gaining ridiculous amounts of weight from empty calories.
Weight is based on how many calories your body uses, versus how many you take in. Nothing else matters.
Omg. Do better research.
My dad, and many of my patients would be dead if this were true.
It just metabolizes into waste products.
I can't stand the tax myself. The only fizzy drink I even buy is Cherry Coke and it's £3.30 for three and a half litres. It's like £1 more now for half a litre less. Don't even get me started on chocolate.
The worst part is the government said that companies would eat the cost, but all they've done is increase the price and shrink the size.
The worst part is the government said that companies would eat the cost, but all they've done is increase the price and shrink the size.
I kept hearing about how the UK sugar tax ruined Irn Bru. I couldn't really taste it until I tried the Irn Bru Xtra...blegh.
The regular still seem pretty alright.
The regular still seem pretty alright.
I despise the taste of sweeteners so I'm hating the changes.
I barely drink sugary drinks, maybe one a week, usually when I'm hungover, and when I want a sugar hit. I don't want a horrible chemically sweetener aftertaste, and I don't trust artificial sweeteners.
I barely drink sugary drinks, maybe one a week, usually when I'm hungover, and when I want a sugar hit. I don't want a horrible chemically sweetener aftertaste, and I don't trust artificial sweeteners.
I live in Philly we have a 1.5 cent tax on sugar beverages. I can't say alternatives have been coming up. People just go out the city to get soda and juice without the tax. It hasn't been promising.
Aren't alternative sugar linked to cancer? That's one reason why I've been avoiding them.
Aren't alternative sugar linked to cancer? That's one reason why I've been avoiding them.
Coke in the US is made with corn syrup. Mexican exported is made with cane sugar, and it is night and day taste wise.
Yep, and Costco sells it in a 20 pack for around $20, and I love it.
No, this has all been debunked long ago. What industry lobby do you think funded the "scientific" studies you are referencing? Please don't fall for this like some anti-vaxxer.
I'm OK with Stevia, as it's been around for a long time and seems to have no harmful effects, but even that should be consumed sparingly. The other sweeteners like aspartame? Nope. Never met a person who drank diet soda regularly that didn't have a body shaped like a Hutt. While some people may lose weight drinking sugar free sweeteners, it promotes a bad diet and most people will eat poorly otherwise. So I'm not convinced a sugar tax is helping the problem much.
People would be better off learning to drink tea, coffee, and water without the sweeteners as their liquids.
People would be better off learning to drink tea, coffee, and water without the sweeteners as their liquids.
No. It's not.
This is from an article in Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism in 2018, which is top 5 Endocrinology journal according to one set of rankings, and has an impact factor of 10 (10 citations within a certain amount of time). Great for the person who lost weight in the short term. You should probably switch to water if you care about your long term health.
Another article from a board-certified physician.
https://theconversation.com/diet-soda-may-be-hurting-your-diet-96181
My girlfriend is type 1 diabetic. This sugar tax is screwing her over because sometimes you need a sugary drink in case your blood sugar is dangerously low.
Sugar is fine, people need to learn moderation.
What happened to green Coca Cola bottles? Sweetened with plant extract or something.
I thought that tasted quite good. I don't like the aspartame taste.
I thought that tasted quite good. I don't like the aspartame taste.
Are you seriously cherry picking?
Did you even read the the study, methods, and discussion?
I wish we had this in the US.
It blows my mind you go to a pharmacy like CVS or Rite Aid, and they have 10 fridges selling drinks.
And of those 10 fridges, maybe half of one is diet. Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Diet Pepsi, and 2 flavors of diet snapple.
Rest is sugar city
At a fucking health store
Uh.. no? Trends of Endocrinology is a review article journal, it's literally impossible to cherry pick because someone already did a survey of the literature. Good lawd people.