Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
A few decades ago city workers anticipated a cheap, relatively healthy lunch of a bunny chow ? a dollop of stew or curry in a half loaf, along with a pint of milk. Today, a lunchtime visit to the corner shop or local supermarket reveals the extent of our dietary rot. For too many, lunch often means half a loaf of bread and a bottle of cool drink.
In our cities, cool drinks have almost become ubiquitous, the daytime drink of choice. Sales are driven by inescapable, hard-edged advertising, reinforced by aspiration, sugar rush and high doses of caffeine as worker fuel. Yet the reality is these are drinks from hell with no upside, either for productivity or health.
Despite pervasive industry spin, sugar, especially at such excessive levels, can never form part of a healthy diet. Sugar is basically empty calories, providing energy with no other nutritional benefit, all at considerable metabolic cost. Extensive research has shown how sugar is linked, through its close relationship to obesity and metabolic disruption, to increasingly common diseases such as diabetes, cardiac and circulatory problems, along with numerous other so-called dietary-linked lifestyle diseases.
http://www.iol.co.za/business/opini...-it-time-for-a-sin-tax-1.1636924#.UuTTmBDFLIU
In our cities, cool drinks have almost become ubiquitous, the daytime drink of choice. Sales are driven by inescapable, hard-edged advertising, reinforced by aspiration, sugar rush and high doses of caffeine as worker fuel. Yet the reality is these are drinks from hell with no upside, either for productivity or health.
Despite pervasive industry spin, sugar, especially at such excessive levels, can never form part of a healthy diet. Sugar is basically empty calories, providing energy with no other nutritional benefit, all at considerable metabolic cost. Extensive research has shown how sugar is linked, through its close relationship to obesity and metabolic disruption, to increasingly common diseases such as diabetes, cardiac and circulatory problems, along with numerous other so-called dietary-linked lifestyle diseases.
http://www.iol.co.za/business/opini...-it-time-for-a-sin-tax-1.1636924#.UuTTmBDFLIU
