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The problem is ... what to do about it ?

posted 8 years ago by bruce-129
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Is this not just a trait of the human brain. In nature we are wired to like and seek out
certain pleasurable things. In the modern day we can extract and refine those things,
like sugar, so that we can get them in unnatural proportions, but we love them. They
make our brains go crazy. The average person, maybe even the majority of people
like sugar, but like everything we like, we end up wanting or needing more to get the
same enjoyment of it. Our brains are overstimulated in this era anyway, so we do the
same thing with sugar, or certain flavors, or stimulations - coffee and the like. So we
get addicted and crave more, and the companies and scientists find out how to
exploit that and say - well it is the customer's choice of they are going to eat themselves
into sickness and death.

What can you say to that? Is it true or not? I wish I had never had a soft-drink in my
life for how hard it was to cut down and eventually quit, but then also for how hard it
is to avoid getting hooked again should I ever drink a sugary soft-drink again.

Should be ban sweets? Kids live for sweets, but it drives them nuts. Adults are the
same and they get serious medical problems from it, but we love this stuff worldwide.

So, what is the answer? Do we have an app on our phones that monitors what we
eat and tells us, or the waiter at a restaurant or cashier at a store that we cannot buy
a thing because we have had enough?

We have run into a defect in the human being motivational system, and we are exploiting
it in many ways in almost everything, sugar is just one thing.

So, what is the reasonable thing to do, and then also consider that the PR industry exists
to just keep a consensus from being obtained so there is action on anything?

What is the answer?

[–] hodie1 8 years ago

Why should anything be done about it? If you don't want sugar, don't eat it.

[–] Misanthwopical_Bweed 8 years ago

I don't think banning sugar is the answer

I think more honest and clear labeling on food would be helpful

instead of using grams to say how much sugar is in something
use teaspoons

gives people a better idea of what theyre taking into their body

"Abortion is green!"
Doug Stanhope

[–] Arvin-G-Borkar 8 years ago

It's not hard to cut down on soft drinks, although many people think they have problems doing it. Partly why people seek soft drinks, or at least for me, is because I want something else instead of water. It is bland to keep drinking water over and over and over again. If I could drink natural drinks, such as natural fruit juices (and I do not mean natural flavored drinks!) then I would not resort to soft drinks and I think many, who think they were originally addicted, would do so as well.

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[–] bruce-129 8 years ago

There is really nothing other than water.
I've found a few things that I have tried to substitute that always lead back to soda.
One is GUS soda that is a reduced sugar brand of soda. It tastes pretty good, but
they are about 90 calories and really still to sugary.
The other is coconut water, that has a lot of nutrition, specifically potassium in it, and
sufficient potassium is hard to get. It is about 40 calories. You have to get used to the
taste, but I think it is good.
Then there is low-fat milk.
Other than that, I don't know of drinks that have nutritional value that are also low cal.
Juice to me is just sugar water, and has more sugar than a lot of sodas.
I can drink water, but then after a long time if I drink a Coke or juice it really grabs me
and I will dream about sweetness for a few days.

[–] luisfilipegomes 7 years ago

Just drink water with a slice of lemon or cucumber. There's nothing as healthy as water.