I'm with Coca-Cola on this one, at least as it relates to their flagship product.
I drink less than one coke a month. I get the sugar kind, because I prefer the mouth feel, but even with corn syrup, there is just no way this has any negative health consequences for me.
This is part of a very general problem, one without obvious solutions: anything which feels good, or is fun, will have people who harm themselves by using it too much.
Mitigating this (it can't be solved) is a boring, slow, social process. Soda vending machines probably shouldn't be in schools. Maybe fast food restaurants should stop bundling a soda for basically-free? But it is basically free, pennies per cup, and I'm wary of anything which forces a huge corporation to not pass that on to the consumer. I've seen no evidence that soda taxes are effective, it strikes me as just a regressive tax.
So we're left with the long slog of convincing people that it's a bad idea to drink a soda with every meal. Which appears to be working... slowly.
When I gain excess weight, it's bread. And not the low-status peasant bread with dough conditioners and added sugar: no I get the fancy sourdough bread, or bagels, and just eat more of it than I really should. There is only one person who can prevent this, and he does my grocery shopping.
I drink less than one coke a month. I get the sugar kind, because I prefer the mouth feel, but even with corn syrup, there is just no way this has any negative health consequences for me.
This is part of a very general problem, one without obvious solutions: anything which feels good, or is fun, will have people who harm themselves by using it too much.
Mitigating this (it can't be solved) is a boring, slow, social process. Soda vending machines probably shouldn't be in schools. Maybe fast food restaurants should stop bundling a soda for basically-free? But it is basically free, pennies per cup, and I'm wary of anything which forces a huge corporation to not pass that on to the consumer. I've seen no evidence that soda taxes are effective, it strikes me as just a regressive tax.
So we're left with the long slog of convincing people that it's a bad idea to drink a soda with every meal. Which appears to be working... slowly.
When I gain excess weight, it's bread. And not the low-status peasant bread with dough conditioners and added sugar: no I get the fancy sourdough bread, or bagels, and just eat more of it than I really should. There is only one person who can prevent this, and he does my grocery shopping.