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If someone is habitually consuming sugar sweetened beverages, replacing those with ASBs will, the evidence strongly suggests, reduce your risk of obesity and various chronic diseases. We can say "just don't consume either" but we have decades of attempting such policies that shows people don't work that way.

Someone who wants to drink a can of coke will drink a can of coke, why would we ban the healthier option?



People “just don’t work that way” when they have to exercise will power, because they can obtain what they want.

That’s not really the case when discussing school meals though, when kids will generally be eating what is put in front of them.


Oh, so was your point that there’s no reason to feed them to children, but there are good reasons for NNSs for gen pop?




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