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I wonder when we'll finally realize how stupid we're and stop drinking liquid sugars including fruit juices, which often are worse than coke!

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To be fair, I haven't met anyone who drinks as much juice as soda drinkers drink soda

Huh yeah... you can see unhealthy people put away a 2 litre bottle of something like Coca-Cola without thinking twice, but that would seem like an obscene quantity of orange juice or something to almost anyone I think.

When I was a deeply unhealthy teenager (about the same time I was regularly going through a 30-pack of Coke in a week) I would frequently also drink a gallon jug of orange juice in a day. I still (decades later) have to keep an eye on myself around that stuff; all the variants of sugar-water are reserved for special occasions these days.

Turns out people will drink more of something if you make it a little addictive. Hell, the drug of choice has changed but it's even baked into the name.

Yeah, a 32-oz juice isn't a fairly common "medium" size, and you don't usually get a juice (with free refills!) included in a combo meal

Heh, come to my primary care clinic, I’ll introduce you.

Read "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, I wonder how can we implement 4 laws to get rid of this bad habit.

Thank you for the recommendation. It's surprising how easily we're getting manipulated by taste buds and old instincts and how often our brain function is out of the picture!

Toss a big warning from the Surgeon General on there. People are blind to it now, but when they first did it for cigarettes most people weren't aware of the severity of related health issues.

We need a big "soda can make you obese and diabetic" campaign — we haven't even begun to approach the level of fervor that cut down on smoking... and we're fatter and unhealthier than ever.

I generally agree that bans go too far, but I love publicly funded advocacy.

Similarly to cigarettes, they need to show diabetics with amputated legs and blind ones. People always think diabetes is a benign condition, which is easy to manage. But tell them that many scientists call it "accelerated aging" today or that it can lead to cancer, and they will take it more seriously.

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