UK: we replaced 13% of the sugar in our Maltesers, Frosties, Swizzels and Smarties with synthetic sweeteners and machinery lubricants derived from gasoline. However, our kids don’t seem healthier.
UK kids: I feel like we need to eat twice as many of these things every year to get the same effect.
Focusing on calories is stupid. Eating too many calories is a consequence/symptom of the problem, not the problem itself – namely people eating junk food with lots of flavor (achieved by artificial means/processing) but no real nutrients to back it up (fortifying processed cereal with metallic iron that is indigestible is an example of fake nutrition).
Such a diet inevitably leads to nutrient deprivation and thus constant hunger and thus overeating. Eating too many calories is inevitable on a processed nutrient poor diet.
The solution is real nutrient dense food (which is caloric, but not excessively so), not more fake food in the way of “low calorie” processed junk.
but I like sugar
These kind of policies make me proud to be a European. I’m glad.
It’s high time. Everything is stuffed with various forms of sugar today.
There is sugar in food like Chicken Mcnuggets so it’s a nice initiative
Processed sugar, the most addicted to substance on the planet.
Let me guess – they want to achieve it by punishing poor overweight people by introducing new taxes and other financial barriers to make cheap junk food unattainable.
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UK: we replaced 13% of the sugar in our Maltesers, Frosties, Swizzels and Smarties with synthetic sweeteners and machinery lubricants derived from gasoline. However, our kids don’t seem healthier.
UK kids: I feel like we need to eat twice as many of these things every year to get the same effect.
Focusing on calories is stupid. Eating too many calories is a consequence/symptom of the problem, not the problem itself – namely people eating junk food with lots of flavor (achieved by artificial means/processing) but no real nutrients to back it up (fortifying processed cereal with metallic iron that is indigestible is an example of fake nutrition).
Such a diet inevitably leads to nutrient deprivation and thus constant hunger and thus overeating. Eating too many calories is inevitable on a processed nutrient poor diet.
The solution is real nutrient dense food (which is caloric, but not excessively so), not more fake food in the way of “low calorie” processed junk.
but I like sugar
These kind of policies make me proud to be a European. I’m glad.
It’s high time. Everything is stuffed with various forms of sugar today.
There is sugar in food like Chicken Mcnuggets so it’s a nice initiative
Processed sugar, the most addicted to substance on the planet.
Let me guess – they want to achieve it by punishing poor overweight people by introducing new taxes and other financial barriers to make cheap junk food unattainable.