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Obesity and politics aside, sugary fizzy drinks are bad for your teeth.
This made me chuckle.Go for an energy drink, plenty of carbs, rich in calories
That is tremendously depressing. Poor kid.I know a four-year-old who has fillings from too much sugar.
Absolutely. It makes the body think it's getting more calories in (as sugars) than it is, so the body seeks that extra energy from somewhere, resulting in increased appetite and hence overeating. Net value is ultimately that someone might eat more without particularly realising it.I seem to remember seeing some science stuff about sweeteners being a problem because by their nature they fool the body into reacting to them as if they were sugar -
Tricking Taste Buds but Not the Brain: Artificial Sweeteners Change Brain's Pleasure Response to Sweet
Banning stuff as the drug wars show is not a great answer to problems, regulation can help but education (or indoctrination if you like) I think is what makes the difference. My 7 year old, who does gymnastics and generally runs round like a dynamo all the time, rarely eats sweets - she'd rather eat a bowl of frozen peas - and doesn't have a spare ounce of fat on her, was telling me the other day that the ketchup was healthy because it only had a few calories.
@pimple8 Getting people to be more self-aware etc. is a long and difficult road and would incorporate a quite radical shift in our whole society. Most people have little idea from moment to moment of what their own face is doing let alone anything else.
Central heating is one of the things I blame, keeping yourself warm uses lots of calories.The problem is really the modern sedentary lifestyle but hard to regulate so let us make sugar the culprit
That is tremendously depressing. Poor kid.
Edit: on the other hand, I did a work experience at a dental practice. One regular patient had terrible teeth from too much carb intake, as a result of a condition in which their body used sugars at an alarming rate.
Similarly, crisps are terrible for your teeth as the starch is stickier, binds to teeth more than sugar and breaks down into sugars which subsequently rot the teeth.
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