Sugary beverages like sodas and energy drinks are designed to be hyper-palatable, laden with extravagant amounts of sweeteners to stimulate pleasure centers in the brain.
You’re not going to win this argument, sugar intake is inwardly destructive, while alcohol is inward and outward. The victims of alcohol are not just the people that consume it, whether it be from drinking and driving, spousal abuse, watching someone you love deteriorating their brain and liver, etc.
You’re not going to win this argument, sugar intake is inwardly destructive, while alcohol is inward and outward. The victims of alcohol are not just the people that consume it, whether it be from drinking and driving, spousal abuse, watching someone you love deteriorating their brain and liver, etc.
This is not apples to apples at all.
Deff not apples to apples…
But which one is a public health emergency and which one has bigger lobby?
Alcohol is definitely a big public health issue. But if you think that getting rid of it is an option, we tried that once and it didn’t go too well.
We ain’t getting rid of sugar either… I am positing that we should be treating sugar like alcohol.
Policy and socially.