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.
In this scenario, alcohol is less bad than soda. It has similar calories but they’re not entirely empty - different drinks have different advantages. For example beer tends to have vitamin b and a small amount of fiber, whereas soda is completely empty.
Alcohol is detrimental in different ways, especially when you have more than one
What scenario exactly? The deaths and health issues caused by each? Because else, there is really no point. You’re just grasping for anything you can find to defend alcohol if all you can find is"there are some vitamins in some alcoholic drinks", especially considering that it is also the case for a lot of sweet drinks, even sodas.
Alcohol is extremely unhealthy, causes dangerous behaviours, deaths, cancers and so on, is one of the few things that can kill you from withdrawal, causes permanent defects on kids during pregnancy, and all of that while being not only legal, not only accepted, but actually actively encouraged and seen as a requirement in society. If you don’t believe me just try to post anything saying that alcohol is stupid at parties.
For sure, sugar is also more pervasive, whereas alcohol has always been regulated enough to be its own thing.
Sugar isn’t just a problem in candies, desserts, and sodas, but way too much is added to things like yogurt, juice, ketchup, salad dressing, throughout the food chain.
As an occasional alcohol drinker, I’m all for tightening things up. We did prove that prohibition doesn’t work, but age restrictions and taxes have made a huge impact on underage drinking. Let’s crank that up. Make me pay more vice taxes.
In this scenario, alcohol is less bad than soda. It has similar calories but they’re not entirely empty - different drinks have different advantages. For example beer tends to have vitamin b and a small amount of fiber, whereas soda is completely empty.
Alcohol is detrimental in different ways, especially when you have more than one
What scenario exactly? The deaths and health issues caused by each? Because else, there is really no point. You’re just grasping for anything you can find to defend alcohol if all you can find is"there are some vitamins in some alcoholic drinks", especially considering that it is also the case for a lot of sweet drinks, even sodas.
Alcohol is extremely unhealthy, causes dangerous behaviours, deaths, cancers and so on, is one of the few things that can kill you from withdrawal, causes permanent defects on kids during pregnancy, and all of that while being not only legal, not only accepted, but actually actively encouraged and seen as a requirement in society. If you don’t believe me just try to post anything saying that alcohol is stupid at parties.
I understand alcohol is bad for pretty much everyone and worse for some. There’s no defense.
However in a thread on “the harm of sugary drinks”, it’s not the worst choice.
Both are sins, and should be treated as such.
But sugar gets a pass due to heavy lobby and cultural acceptance.
It should be subject to heavier scrutiny from policy side and socially made unappealing just like how people talk about alcohol in this thread.
For sure, sugar is also more pervasive, whereas alcohol has always been regulated enough to be its own thing.
Sugar isn’t just a problem in candies, desserts, and sodas, but way too much is added to things like yogurt, juice, ketchup, salad dressing, throughout the food chain.
As an occasional alcohol drinker, I’m all for tightening things up. We did prove that prohibition doesn’t work, but age restrictions and taxes have made a huge impact on underage drinking. Let’s crank that up. Make me pay more vice taxes.
Correct, sugar is unchecked and society accepts it.
Tax it and limit social appeal
If by “scenario” you mean you only want to observe single parameter, then fine, but that’s not really useful.
Alcohol is much worse than soda.
By this scenario, I me as n “the harm of sugary drinks”. The context is the title.
Of course alcohol is overall much more harmful but if we’re talking about empty calories and insulin insensitivity, there are worse choices