Former president Donald Trump told attendees at an outdoor rally that he would bring Fruitopia vending machines back to public schools within the first 100 days of his presidency if elected.
Until this moment I completely forgot about those things
They removed sodas from our school vending machines and replaced them with yoohoo and other non-carbonated drinks with the same sugar. Carbonation is not the problem! Now they’ve put sodas back, but only diet ones, so I’m not sure that’s better.
Too early to say for sure, but artificial sweeteners might be bad for kids.
Their bodies are still calibrating on how sweetness translates to calories.
Diet sodas are very sweet but provide no calories.
So their bodies might take it as a general rule either that very sweet things are safe to consume in excess, or that their expected intake always falls short of their actual intake so they should overeat across the board.
Again, it’s too early to say for sure, but there are enough plausible concerns that I wouldn’t automatically assume it’s fine.
They removed sodas from our school vending machines and replaced them with yoohoo and other non-carbonated drinks with the same sugar. Carbonation is not the problem! Now they’ve put sodas back, but only diet ones, so I’m not sure that’s better.
Too early to say for sure, but artificial sweeteners might be bad for kids.
Their bodies are still calibrating on how sweetness translates to calories.
Diet sodas are very sweet but provide no calories.
So their bodies might take it as a general rule either that very sweet things are safe to consume in excess, or that their expected intake always falls short of their actual intake so they should overeat across the board.
Again, it’s too early to say for sure, but there are enough plausible concerns that I wouldn’t automatically assume it’s fine.