To be clear, this is a jab at the copious amount of sugar that companies throttle down our throats. It’s a critique of big companies.
To be clear, this is a jab at the copious amount of sugar that companies throttle down our throats. It’s a critique of big companies.
There is way to much sugar in coke
But be the devils advocate. The current anti sugar trend is worse.
Sugar is a natural and useful component to the body. There are times where having sugar available is not only important but can save lives (including some types of diabetes)
I have gone to locations where all provided drinks where zero sugar and bringing your own drinks not allowed. Thats is not an improvement.
Sorry, but why? The vast majority of the foods that we eat contain plenty of sugar.
Even with a pretty healthy diet you’re still getting enough sugar. High sugar vegetable like carrots, bell peppers peppers, onions, sweet potatoes, and beets more than meet your needs, especially when paired with even the smallest amount of fruit.
the thing is that the sugar in solid food is not as rapidly absorbed as from soda. so if you have hypoglycemia and are about to faint in ~90 seconds, eating a carrot is not gonna save you
Eating a carrot to ingest sugar??? Who ever heard of such a thing?
Its not a big problem if you are not one of the people with a medical issue that need a reliable and exactly known amount of sugar.
Its a life endangering problem if you are.
Foods are rarely as standardized as drinks. Medical professionals relked on the availability and exactly known amount of sugar in regular code to prescribe it as part of a diet.
This was at some point even adressed on my local news when they changed the coke zero packaging to be more like regular coke. There is an increased change a customer (or waiter) could grab the wrong can and taste wise you wouldn’t know. This goed both directions.
People who can’t have sugar may be served sugar.
People who require sugar may be served sugar free.
I bet the scope of this problem is small but at least some medical professionals and health groups agree that this is not the way to go.
lemmy.blahaj.zone is not the best place for serious discussions because you can’t downvote bad takes
for the rare case that somebody actually needs a shot of sugar due to hypoglycemia (which only diabetic people have), these people typically carry sugar around with them for this exact purpose.
OP here. The problem is, this is actually a shitpost. IDK what the heck is going on in my comment section rn
I would certainly hope you get an exception to bring your own sugared something when showing proof of medical needs.
But i have never seen it explicitly stated that such exception is possible on events that ban you from taking food/drink. Which appears to be more and more common as culture gets bought out and enshitificated.
Mayve i am too autistic to assume such exception exists but i have been burned by assuming common sense will apply many times before.
Its also not just diabetics, some medications can cause thypoglycemia too. It also shouldn’t really matter what the reason is.
Its odd downvoted dont work on your end, my comment has 5 of them.
relatable
also i agree with the rest of your comment
You just have to wean yourself off of sugary drinks. You really don’t need them with the amount of sugar you get via your food.
i think that this is a bad take as well. you can’t just reliably “wean yourself off” of coke if you actually do burn a lot of calories, because it’s not as if people could just digest arbitrarily large amounts of solid food. coke should exist, it just shouldn’t be the norm.
What happened to all the people who burned a lot of calories before coke was invented?
beer, i guess
Not if you have Hypoglycaemia.