Sugar Tax

[sp1814]

A sensible move to tackle obesity, or gesture politics?

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35813973

[AB Editor]

Obviously, this is also a good place to mention the regular Onwards & Downwards weightloss and dieting thread over here: http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Weight-Loss-and-Dieting/Question1479342.html

The best tax planning you could hope for!

[DTCwordfan]

Bloody good idea, even the trouser-press had to accept that one.

[mikey4444]

As a diabetic, I avoid sugary soft drinks and buy diet or no added sugar versions instead. So can everybody else.

I notice that this new tax is not going to be applied to fruit juices, so perhaps that will encourage people to switch from that dreadful Sunny Delight
( hardly any fruit and lots of chemicals ), to real juice.

Does any know if the new tax is going to be applied to juice "drinks" which isn't fruit juice at all, but water mixed a little real juice ?

[hc4361]

As the tax will be paid by the drinks manufacturers my guess is that every drink they make, sugared or not, will rise in price

[Noe-schitt]

Its just another tax that will go up as and when a Canceler wants to raise more revenue

[pixie374]

Fruit juice has a lot of sugar in too, no different for diabetics. They should tax salt if it's really about health. That affects everyone. And red meat, especially bacon :-). What next....?

[hc4361]

mikey, fruit juice also has a lot of sugar and the acid rots the enamel on teeth.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11130095/The-10-fruit-juices-with-more-sugar-than-Coca-Cola.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/how-fruit-drinks-are-causing-tooth-decay-in-toddlers-9767863.html

[ummmm]

Can't the body process natural sugars better?

[hc4361]

I am diabetic and avoid fruit juices
http://www.diabetes.co.uk/food/juice-and-diabetes.html

[hc4361]

Diabetics can't, ummmm

[pixie374]

Better than sweeteners, yes. Except for people who are diabetic.

[mikey4444]

hc...your Telepgraph link says that within that top ten, there were some listed as fruit "drink" I am amazed that there are so any people that think that fruit juice and fruit drink are the same thing...they are not.

[mikey4444]

Umm...a common misconception about sugar and diabetes, is that "natural" sugar is OK. There is not such thing as "natural" sugar. Your pancreas couldn't give a tinkers cuss where the sugar comes from or what we call it....its all still sugar.

[ummmm]

Yeah...my mums diabetic. Although she was only a size 14 to start with she's dropped to a size 10 and is fitter than ever. She religiously sticks to the recommended diet except in the pub, which is rare.

[ummmm]

She doesn't drink alcohol, she'll treat herself to a coke.

[mikey4444]

Umm...your Mum deserves some praise !

I just wish I was as disciplined !

[Old_Geezer]

:-)
Ah. I see.

[mikey4444]

Read all about Sunny Delight....the stuff that is marketed in the same way as real fruit juice and looks like real fruit juice but instead contains only 5% juice !

Read the label next time you shop !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunnyD

[ToraToraTora]

bit of both but a sensible move.

[hc4361]

I think everyone is aware of Sunny D after all the negative press a few years ago, mikey