Soda and Fruit Juices Should be Banned

[mefordis]

But it's simple enough to be boiled down to a 7 minute Youtube video? OK.

Personally I ate like crap the first 50 years of my life. Lots of processed food, fast food, junk food, etc. For the first 40-45, it wasn't an issue. Then I started gaining weight. I didn't change what I was eating, but my job changed to become more sedentary. My lifestyle did also. So, between diet, physical exertion, and age, only one thing stayed the same.

My 85 yr old father in law still eats like crap and he is doing pretty well. Not saying it is a good thing but some people can get away with it, some can't.

 

[Tink-osophy]

OP, The level of control you're suggesting belongs in a very different society: -

Sounds remarkably like Cuba - they only eat what's provided for them to purchase through communist government outlets. (I recently returned from a vacation there and it was extremely eye-opening.)

It would be prohibition all over again and drive orange squeezing underground!

Long live individual choice.

 

[Mysterian]

Oh god, lawn darts were great,

How to lose at Lawn Darts:

 

[Kennywood]

The bickering is certainly entertaining!

 

[Robbie Cottam]

How to lose at Lawn Darts:

If you can dodge a dart you can dodge a ball

 

[Tink-osophy]

The bickering is certainly entertaining!

I wouldn't say this is a helpful post, but I do love Richard Ayoade!

 

[RamblingMad]

OP, The level of control you're suggesting belongs in a very different society: -


It would be prohibition all over again and drive orange squeezing underground!

Long live individual choice.

No such thing in the US. So many of the things that I did a child is now banned or changed.

 

[RamblingMad]

The bickering is certainly entertaining!

No idea why. At the end of the day, all that matters is a long healthy life.

 

[Tink-osophy]

No idea why. At the end of the day, all that matters is a long healthy life.

Oops quoted the wrong post. There doesn't seem to be a way to change that through 'edit' any more?

 

[PezRuth]

No idea why. At the end of the day, all that matters is a long healthy life.

Sorry but I disagree with this statement. To me it should be all that matters is a happy life. Hopefully it is a long and healthy one. I don't think we should be banning the things you say we should as that is a very slippery slope to go down.

 

[mom2rtk]

No idea why. At the end of the day, all that matters is a long healthy life.

For you perhaps. What about the person who wants a slightly shorter life full of tasty treats?

And as I pointed out before, funding for programs like social security isn't ready for more people to live to older ages .

 

[Robbie Cottam]

How about we unban everything.
We let people make their own choices.
Then my body Darwin decides who has the best plan.

 

[MakiraMarlena]

Banning stuff for health reasons never works. There's always something else that needs to be banned. Pretty soon we will just be having water and green beans unless there is a reason to ban water or green beans.

 

[Allison]

No idea why. At the end of the day, all that matters is a long healthy life.

You forgot to add "to me"

 

[Tink-osophy]

...Long live individual choice.

No such thing in the US. So many of the things that I did a child is now banned or changed.

No need to make it worse, though. The kind of blanket ban you're suggesting is a very slippery slope. If you think you don't have individual choice now, try living in a country where you really don't have freedom of choice (as mentioned previously).

 

[Mysterian]

Remember that Twilight Zone when Rambling went duck-fart bonkers over anyone eating high fructose corn syrup?

"Is that a Fruit Roll-Up?? TO THE CORNFIELD!"

 

[Robbie Cottam]

Remember that Twilight Zone when Rambling went duck-fart bonkers over anyone eating high fructose corn syrup?

"Is that a Fruit Roll-Up?? TO THE CORNFIELD!"

That is in black and white, how old are you

 

[Planogirl]

That is in black and white, how old are you

People still watch Twilight Zone.

I don't want anything banned except those things that people can't avoid if they wish to and anything that can hurt others if I choose to do it. People could say that higher insurance and medical costs hurt people but where is the cut off there?

 

[TLSnell1981]

Bikers and rental scooter people.
The scooter folks in particular are regulars at our ER. New revenue stream.

Otherwise known as organ donors.

 

[Colleen27]

It wasn't as available. You can see the impact on this chart. Things go sideways in the mid-80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesi...e:Adult_male_obesity_in_the_United_States.svg

We are banning stuff all the time. We eat stuff that is banned in the EU as well. I don't see this as a big deal. But it will never happen.

And that timing brings me right back to my first post on this thread... The FDA approved high fructose corn syrup in 1983, setting up a perfect storm of a newly-approved, cheap (due to subsidies) and stable sweetener that food producers were more than happy to find uses for. And over the next decade or so, everything we eat got sweeter. I have to buy a ridiculously expensive small-label organic ketchup to get something that tastes like the Del Monte I grew up with because now all the big brands are sweeter and less tomato-tasting than they were in the 80s. And even when brands shift away from HFCS in response to consumer concerns, they don't revert to old recipes. They just substitute other sweeteners, because sweeter products sell better and encourage more consumption.

I don't think we need a ban. I think we need to revise the farm bill to limit the billions that flow into making our food supply sweeter and less healthy.

** And at this point in any online conversation on the topic, I'd like to make it clear that I'm not buying into the junk science about there being metabolic differences between HFCS and other sugars; I'm talking strictly about the economics/marketing/food engineering side of the equation and how a cheaper sweetener made for sweeter food products and higher sweetener consumption across the board. Even super-size free refills rest largely on our farm policy because Coke is literally cheap enough for chains to give away **

Governments are already trying to dictate what you will and will not eat. Just look at the schools. Some schools will not allow parents to pack a lunch for their own child. If they do allow it, they reserve the right to inspect the lunch and reject it, if it doesn't conform to their requirements.

The government is saying that they know what's best for your child. If you don't agree, that's too bad.

Can you cite an example where a school is enforcing nutrition standards you don't agree with? Our (private) school does very loosely monitor packed-from-home lunches, but it is mainly because some kids pack their own and try to get away with something (and of course, a few parents just suck), and things get unruly in the classroom when you have kids who brought a lunchbox of nothing but Halloween candy or a Red Bull or Mountain Dew for their mid-day meal. Does it happen every day? Of course not. The most common issue we catch is kids who forgot their lunch and need us to arrange a last-minute hot lunch. But there have certainly been a few times where we've had kids bring things that weren't acceptable.