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My middle son has just about ruined his teeth with mountain dew and has sensitive teeth. Age--26. I didn't start having sensitive teeth until I was about 52. I never drank much soda,maybe more when I was a kid.
How do you know if was from specifically Mt Dew and not lack of good dental habits, or too much candy, or a million other potential causes? I can't locate the link but they did a thing on mythbusters about soda and its effect on teeth, and they determined that it is overstated. I agree in theory that pop cannot be good for teeth, but I think it is a bit overzealous to blame his bad teeth just on the intake of soda.
i used to drink 6 cans of dew a day, back when i was a mechanic, i stopped and started drinking water, 4 or 5 20oz bottles a day... wow did i ever feel better after that... now i usually only drink coke when there's rum in it
They first need to finish the job on tobaco and elimanate it from ALL workplaces,bars and casinos.You can smoke all you want by yourself.I am all for a user tax on sodas.Those are the best kinds of taxes. if you dont want to pay the tax DONT BUY IT.I think they should cut back on income tax and ramp up user taxes on things like booze, candy,toys,pop,weed(legalize it first) and lots of other non essental items.
Do you believe that, in general, the government ought to exercise control over our behavior by using taxes to punish us for doing things the government disapproves of?
How about a punitive tax on speakers that deliver more than a certain amount of decibels?
anyone think there's any validity to this? like in 50 years, will people look at soda (and maybe even processed food) the way we look at tobacco products now?
I think that's fairly predictable. Years ago when smoking became the "topic of the day" I thought it was foreseeable that obesity would be next on the target list.
I'll insert a "sigh" here only because it frustrates me to see common sense flushed down the drain (IMO) and to have "people" decide what's good and what's not good for me, and to add insult to injury, criticize me if I decide to eat a donut (disclosure - I'm not obese - could I stand to lose 10 lbs? Probably, according to whichever "healthy weight" chart I decide to believe - consider the myriad of them - but I do try to have a little self-control).
Soda, in my opinion, is more addictive than smoking.
I have kicked the can, and I would have to say it was harder for me to drop soda than it was for me to kick smoking. Smoking, I just decided one day that I was done and that was that. I have not lit up a smoke in almost five years, and have had no desire to. Soda on the other hand, I quit it then lapsed then quit then lapsed... I finally drew the line, put my foot down and forced myself to just skip the soda isle at the store. Every once in a while I buy a 20oz bottle for my husband as a treat if he asks for one, and pick out a juice or flavored water for myself. On the rare occasion that we eat out, I will give in to my deep dark desires for that fizzy goodness that is soda, and I have a glass. I have maybe 2 sodas a month now, compared to 4 or so a DAY before. Since quitting, I have suffered so many headaches, irritability, and I can never seem to satisfy my thirst. For me, soda has been a terrible addiction. It's also made me look at all of the other "gunk" in my diet- boxed meals and processed food blagh! One step at a time I'm looking to remove the un natural food from my diet and replace it with fesh items/garden grown items and wild game.
* Has anyone ever read the book DUNE by Frank Herbert? I wonder if someday we will live in a similar world, where an addictive food substance (such as caffeine) is in almost everything we consume and eventually we realize that we've become so dependent upon it that to remove it from our diet would mean death via the withdrawls...
anyone think there's any validity to this? like in 50 years, will people look at soda (and maybe even processed food) the way we look at tobacco products now?
Yes, definitely. And well we should. And we don't have 50 years to do it. If we wait that long, we will have bankrupted ourselves trying to pay for all the health care costs associated with mass consumption of large quantities of unhealthy food.
They first need to finish the job on tobaco and elimanate it from ALL workplaces,bars and casinos.You can smoke all you want by yourself.I am all for a user tax on sodas.Those are the best kinds of taxes. if you dont want to pay the tax DONT BUY IT.I think they should cut back on income tax and ramp up user taxes on things like booze, candy,toys,pop,weed(legalize it first) and lots of other non essental items.
I think that's a fair trade. Why penalize people for working?! It's better to make people pay taxes for stuff that's hurting them and which ends up costing us all a fortune in health care costs.
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