How Big Is Your Soft Drink Addiction?

Especially since smokes are worse for your health than a soft drink.

 

Absolutely.....kids need words of praise, encouragement and sometimes along w/that a parent turning off the tv, video game, computer and telling them to get up and get active.... put them to work cleaning up the yard or something.....

Altho my kids were into sports/activities later on, that's what I did to my 3 if I saw to much of being a vegetable in front of the tv.... we live close to a lake and I'd take them to the lake where they would play on the equipment and just run around. Another plus about that - after being at the lake for several hours, just letting them run they slept good at night.....

I have a 12 yr old granddaughter who's into dance, Girls Scouts and swimming. My daughter has always had her involved in activities. She's growing, eats like a horse, but stays slender. Her dietary habits have been changed by her parents. Now it's nothing but organic and they explained to her why. Big change for this 12 yr old girl, but she's adjusting b/c she has no choice. There's no more chips, soda and junk food in her house....

 

Don't you think it isn't the responsibility of the government to tell us what we can or cannot do on such a minute level. I agree with your sentiment that it is too hard to enforce and there are worse problems, but does anyone think that this is a problem not about sugar, but about our government? When will "enough be enough" in terms of the government telling it's people what to do. Please, I would love to hear people's opinions

 

No Soda.....
Formula for non-working days goes like this: Coffee, juice & water in the morning, tea till ~3, corona's (lime optional) till 7, and then dine & wine.
Formula for business days goes like this: Coffee, juice/water/tea (food optional) from 4am until my head hits the keyboard (usually 11pm'ish).....repeat daily until project is complete.

Not for eveyone, but works for me.

 

How about...It is none of yours or the governments business how much soda I drink.

Or you could just keep your nose out of my personal business.

What about beer drinking? Should we prohibit alcohol consumption in the U.S.? How about marijuana consumption? These prohibition ideas have worked so well for us in the past.

 

I rarely drink so called soft drinks but can't see any reason whatsoever why anyone else should be able to limit my access to them as I might like them.

How bout these libs do more to limit access by Americans to illegal substances by actually TRYING to prevent crimaliens from entering our country and by arresting and deporting those already here??? These law breaking scum are much more of a threat to all Americans than any soda pop could ever be......

WTF has happened to peoples minds with regard to obeying the law and what laws need to be enforced which are already on the books???

 

Maybe they could make it illegal to buy soda, candy, chips, and other junk food with food stamps?

 

I think that's a great idea. Only healthy foods should be allowed to be purchased. This may also cut down on other people's desire to buy food stamps from those who receive them(basically exchanging cash money for them) since the products they could buy with them would be more limited.

While I am totally in favor of social assistance programs, I do not have any qualms about guidelines and limitations on what people on those programs can do.

 

Has New York banned all soda?

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Then we also need to end the ban on importing foreign sugar.

 

Exactly! Didn't even think of it from that angle. But yes, unprepared meats, beans, rice, raw veggies and potatoes etc. No TV dinners and pot pies etc... No sodas, candy, chips, and other junk food items.

 

Oh please, do you realize how real sugar is harvested? That's a dangerous job done primarily in third world countries with little or no safety standards, this almost sounds like a set up to start charging corporations with human rights' abuses...

Learning moderation starts in the home, oh right, liberals have been hell bent on destroying nuclear families, fathers, and anything good that starts in the home, accentuated by allowing teachers' unions to put soda machines in our schools. This problem was foreseeable, and while this attempt failed, one day in the not so bright and near future the goal will be met along with banning all sorts of other things. Why do liberals constantly see the need to ban things?

 

It's their supremacist nature. Only they ban whatever republicans (also supremacist by nature) don't, and accept anything republicans want banned. It's a political subterfuge so it looks like they are different in every way. Political ying and yang with little rational thinking and a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. In any case both sides know what is best for everybody else and the majority of the population gets dealt the blow of the consequences the two party scam creates.

 

Far as I can tell the only thing the 'right' wants to ban is rape in unisex shower rooms and the murder of babies... Feel free to list off all the things the 'right' wants to ban and we can compare notes. I'm not talking every kook that claims a side though, I'm talking legislation, that has actual records we can discuss. I'll start you out. The 'right' would like to ban the murder of babies in the womb, a sensitive topic to be sure, but your side likes to ban anything and everything under the sun, to include a myriad of consumer products and then have the audacity to attempt to equate such things...

 

My side? Shirley you jest? My side is logic common sense and reality. The point was and is, if republicans are for something, democrats are without a doubt automatically against it and visa versa. How does this make me on one side or the other when I am pointing out how bankrupt the entire two party system is? There is no intelligent dialogue, no rational reasoning, just I believe this and if you don't then you are Hitler.

 

I think the little, health-conscious mayor went too far in banning big unhealthful drinks. Other executive initiatives of his in the public interest - banning smoking in restaurants, mandatory sentences for those who carry illegal guns, and energy-efficiency rules for building owners - remain quite popular. Business executives often show little patience for the democratic, legislative method.

What is comical is the knee-jerks who bleat, it's a "personal responsibility!" when what they are actually licencing is personal irresponsibility.

The most effective way to thwart government regulation is for folks to behave responsibly in its absence.

Often, a reasonable law establishes a norm that justifies its repeal. Nutters opposed automotive safety-belt requirements for Americans taking to the public highways, but now it has become such an ubiquitous, sensible habit, that it would, in all probability, continue at a high rate of frequency absent any concern for legality.

If someone is free to behave imprudently, and damages his health by frequently gulping down huge buckets of liquid sugar, Americans will bear the cost of his medical care (unless he has the decency to suddenly drop dead from his aggregated irresponsibility.)

The price of freedom is imposed upon the responsible, a bill they are not free to irresponsibly ignore.

 

Are you truly claiming 'neutrality'? That's total BS, nobody is neutral, we learn, we process, we take sides. Unless you live in a cave, you have your sides as everyone else does, I would denounce you as a liar and hypocrite, but that would get me banned, so I'll have to ask that you prove your neutrality in more civil means...

 

Heh - that never stopped the government from regulating people and their behavior.

 

You clearly do not understand the dangers of HFCS:

Fructose Tied to Obesity as Study Shows It Doesn’t Cut Appetite

 

Danger comes when one loses their ability to comprehend threats to themselves, whether external or internal. The danger in consumer products comes only when they become so common place we forget ourselves. I don't drink much soda, as when I grew up it was a treat for me, I learned moderation at a young age, that is now missing in society it would appear... There are many dangerous products out there, but only the individual can determine how much or little they consume, that is no job of the ever oppressive state...

 

Not neutrality, sanity. Partisan politics is nothing but insanity. Everything isn't totally black and white. Cause and effect have everything to do with any problem and partisanship has a way of blinding the sheeple from paying attention to the situation rationally. If you pledge blind allegiance to either party no matter the issue, you are a sheeple. An enabler of the problems we have in this country today. AKA the problem.

 

The problem with conservatives, is they seem to think, that since humans are thinking beings we can easily override our bodies desires. This obviously isn’t the case.

So your mantra of ' moderation' falls of deaf ears. Just because **you** have 'learned moderation; does not make you like everyone else. Each human is a UNIQUE individual in that we are not carbon copy robots.

While some of can use 'moderation', others cannot, because the impulses from he brain are stronger than their 'will power', so they just keep drinking soda with HFCS. It would be a breath of fresh air if Conservatives would realize this, and quit being so selfish and actually think of other people for once. After all, we are trying to get thru this thing called life. Some people just need some help through it.

 

Yep!

 

So you agree with republicans (not conservatives by the way), that pot should be banned completely even when it comes to medical uses? You know for every bodies own good.

 

I have soften my stance on all drugs do to Portugal legalizing all drugs and drug abuse actaully went down 50%.

Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal

I don’t like or condone the use of drugs, but if legalization will rid society of the drug problem, then I'm all ears.

 

Moderation is an individual choice, those that choose little or none, make that choice on their own, and deserve their own fate... Our acceptance of weakness is not acceptable, every instance of trying to mitigate that is simply to allow the weak a place they don't deserve. Its a feeble attempt to displace the strong, the very ones that made society and civilization possible. It's pathetic...