As someone who drank sugary drinks up until about 5 years ago but now drinks the diet versions you are being unreasonable. It took a while to get used to the taste but now I can't bear the sugary versions.
And as it really is quite clear that part of the nation's obesity and diabetes crisis is because of sugar, I'm fully behind the sugar tax.
You do realise that not everybody is you, don’t you? Why should we be denied something natural and forced to swap it with an artificial alternative, just because you claim that everybody can become dulled to the taste of it over time?
Nobody on here is demanding that drinks with sweeteners be withdrawn as a choice, just that those who don’t want sweeteners should also have a choice.
The obesity and diabetes crisis is caused by a whole load of potential factors, one of which may well be sugar. Similarly, regularly tricking your body into releasing far too much insulin to counter with what it believes is a lot of sugar may well contribute to the onset of diabetes.
I'm fully behind him. I love that drinks that used to be sickly sweet with sugar now have sweeteners so I can drink them. As to previous poster about her diabetic husband, don't most pubs well fruit juice?
Yes, they do, but what if he doesn’t want to be restricted to one kind of drink? Would you be happy if you asked for a glass of wine and they said, ah you don’t need that – we’ve got beer and that also has alcohol in it?
FGS, not all drinks have sweeteners in them instead of sugar. And yes, drinking either the full sugar or sweetener one is crap for your health, and in the case of the former, your teeth.
You do realise, don’t you, that sugar, like fat, is not one big unmitigated evil? We need them in our diet, just not too much – same as with everything.
The fact is that most people eat too much sugar. Anyone who says there is nothing wrong with that is deluded - why do we have so many fats kids and adults? (and no, it’s no lack of exercise - diet plays a much bigger role in people’s weight)
So are you claiming that there are far fewer fat people nowadays, now that we have drinks stuffed with artificial sweeteners, than there were in the 50s, 60s and 70s, when 'evil' sugar was the only sweetener used?
There are a lot of people on here who really don’t seem to like letting other people have choices in their lives if they consider those choices bad, or even if they’re just not their own preferred choices.