Well, I dunno if the kids will sit still for this one...Coke and Pepsi have pledged to remove their regular (with corn syrup and sugar) drinks but will keep the diet, fruit juices and bottled water in their vending machines in schools nationwide.
I wonder if that's going to slow down one problem but create another one for the kids when they get older. Yes, the corn syrup and sugar used in regular Coke and Pepsi are contributing to childhood obesity, but the jury's still out on what the artificially sweetened beverages do to a human being's neuromuscular system over years of consumption (see shoyu thread below). We might end up with a few generations of leaner older adults who suffer from an epidemic of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's or ALS instead.
Small kid time, we didn't have soda vending machines. Our choices for drink were water or milk. And man, I wish I had been the one who "invented" water in plastic bottles!
Miulang
I wonder if that's going to slow down one problem but create another one for the kids when they get older. Yes, the corn syrup and sugar used in regular Coke and Pepsi are contributing to childhood obesity, but the jury's still out on what the artificially sweetened beverages do to a human being's neuromuscular system over years of consumption (see shoyu thread below). We might end up with a few generations of leaner older adults who suffer from an epidemic of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's or ALS instead.
Small kid time, we didn't have soda vending machines. Our choices for drink were water or milk. And man, I wish I had been the one who "invented" water in plastic bottles!
Miulang
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