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This topic has been beaten to death. I don't know why people keep going on about it. If people are so against safety nets maybe they should come up with their own ways of helping people become self sufficient. Obviously the "system" isn't working for you so now it's time to take it into your own hands. But you won't do that. You just want to complain about everything wrong in this country and wait for a savior to do it for you. Not gonna happen. These are the same people who go around persecuting people with disabilities because they have trouble working or can't work. Well bozo, you give a hand up so the person can find their place. Some people need the wheels greased for them.
For those households participating in SNAP, 58% of the "refreshment beverages" purchased were sugar-sweetened drinks, mostly paid for by SNAP. (Refreshment beverages included carbonated soft drinks, bottled water, 100% juice, fruit drinks, energy drinks and shots, sports drinks, ready-to-drink tea, flavored/enhanced water, ready-to-drink coffee and powdered non-alcoholic drinks.)
Well duh. Pretty much everything in their listing of "refreshment beverages" are sugary messes. The only one that isn't? Pure unenhanced, unflavored water.
I can't wait to see the posting of the entire study and see what they consider to be "sugar-sweetened drinks" and what isn't - considering that most of these types of drinks sweeten with corn squeezings. Do they consider the fruit sugars of "100% juices" under their "sugar-sweetened" listings? You know, seeing as how these "oh-so-healthy" juices have ridiculous amounts of sugar.
Last edited by gallowsCalibrator; 09-19-2012 at 01:53 PM..
I'm sure a great number of parents thought those juices and fruit drinks were nutritionally beneficial to their kids (as some juices actually are in small quantity--I drink orange juice in lieu of taking vitamin pills). Milk, water, and juice are not really "junk."
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