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[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

As someone with an intolerance to artificial sweeteners, I'll never forgive Jamie Oliver for pushing the sugar tax, alongside his insistence on "improving" school meals that resulted in mass outsourcing of school food to the lowest bidder.

Kids aren't drinking less soft drinks than before, the drinks themselves have just replaced sugar with chemicals and byproducts that aren't particularly healthy themselves...

[-] amju_wolf@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Have you considered drinking unsweetened stuff? Either plain water, or "flavoured" water. Basically soda without any sugar or sweeteners. It's surprisingly tasty, and pretty much as healthy as pure water.

Alternatively there are tons of different sweeteners. Some like stevia should be fine even if you have issues with, say, aspartame.

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sadly, Stevia doesn't agree with me either, although I don't feel as ill as if I have drinks with aspartame, which is what most drinks in the UK use.

I recently bought a soda stream for just this, since I now mostly drink sparkling water. There aren't many cordials here that don't use a sweetener, and many of my previously favourite kombucha brands now use aspartame - but there's enough to have some choice.

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Cough Cough... Now follow suit America. I am sick of seeing people being so unhealthy and addicted to this drug.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What do the kids drink instead?

[-] Nythos@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Possibly just the sugar free equivalent on said drinks.

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[-] Mindtraveller 3 points 1 year ago

Great, now all the undernourished kids with poor parents are going to drink water instead and lose weight to dangerously unhealthy levels.

According to The Guardian (same source as this article), the number of children in food poverty in the UK is 4 million. 15% of UK households went hungry in January. Now, soda isn’t the smartest source of calories in a kid’s diet. It’s expensive and low in other nutrients. But kids aren’t always smart. A poor kid thinks “I’m hungry, I have a few pounds, there’s a vending machine, problem solved”. If the soda is too expensive, that doesn’t mean the kid is going to go to Aldi, buy some potatoes, and roast them for a cheap and nutritious meal. They’re a kid! It means they’ll pay more or go without. Which means you’re making the poverty and malnutrition problem worse.

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