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Help to start a diabetes campaign!

Amy8668

Amy8668

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I am looking to start a campaign in order to get local shops/garages and supermarkets to sell more sugar free drinks and also to move the large amounts of chocolate and sweets variety on show whilst queuing to purchase goods. The reason for this is, I am a partner of a type 1 diabetic who has an extremely sweet tooth. Just going into a shop the amount of chocolate and sweets basically pushed in his face is unbelievable and most of the time he cant resist not purchasing any. Also, as he goes into the shop to purchase a drink there are the majority of the time the 2 drinks he can have - diet Coke and Water. It doesn't seem fair people with diabetes should have to be subjected to the same old boring drinks. I have not done anything like this before, so I am unsure how to go about it, any help would be greatly appreciated! :)
 
I totally agree with you on the diet coke / water front. I've always only consumed diet drinks, as I don't drink hot drinks throughout the day (only 1 cup of coffee in a morning). So I like to have one or two cans or small bottles of pop as a change from my staple drink of water. Unfortunately there never is much choice except diet coke, coke zero, diet pepsi, pepsi max. My local shop sells all four... but I'd like to see diet irn bru, diet sprite or 7up, or even a diet tango!
 
shops sell what people buy and they couldnt give a monkeys about people with diabetes, if more people drank diet pop they would sell more diet pop, if they arent going to stop selling cigarettes which are universally hated by millions what chance do you think you have of stopping them selling chocolates, the reason they put the chocolates there is the exact reason you dont want them too, im not trying to be negative and i understand your frustrations but your going to fight an already lost battle in my opinion, how about sticking to petrol stations that offer a pay at the pump service or fill the car up full of fuel for him or you do the shopping, if he has such a sweet tooth i would guess it wouldnt be a huge hassle walking to the other side of the shop to pick up some "goodies" i think your attacking this backwards, you should work on hes motivation rather than trying to cure a cultural disease fuelled by billions of pounds, again sorry for the negativity and good luck
 
There is already a Gov't campaign to force the food manufacturers to reduce the amount of added sugar to food. Hopefully this will help us all. As for your idea, I'm well up for more choice of diet drinks, especially in pubs but it's business and supply and demand. Garages, pubs, restaurants etc will stock what sells most. As for moving the sweets, as Andy said, they are there exactly for a purpose, impulse buying.
 
I find most garages and small shops do sell a good variety of sugar-free drinks compared to say 10-20 years ago, as for the chocolate and sweets I can't see them removing them from a prominent position as this is how they make their money. There was a campaign a few years back to remove chocolate and sweets from supermarket check-outs to stop kids demanding and grabbing sweets as their parents loaded the shopping on the belt, I think some supermarket chains did remove them but from what I see now almost all have returned.

If he loves chocolate buy him some 85% cocoa chocolate from Aldi ( a brand called Moser Roth) each pack contains five bars and each one has around 4g of carbs, really delicious and not too expensive.
 
noblehead said:
I find most garages and small shops do sell a good variety of sugar-free drinks compared to say 10-20 years ago, as for the chocolate and sweets I can't see them removing them from a prominent position as this is how they make their money. There was a campaign a few years back to remove chocolate and sweets from supermarket check-outs to stop kids demanding and grabbing sweets as their parents loaded the shopping on the belt, I think some supermarket chains did remove them but from what I see now almost all have returned.

If he loves chocolate buy him some 85% cocoa chocolate from Aldi ( a brand called Moser Roth) each pack contains five bars and each one has around 4g of carbs, really delicious and not too expensive.
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i am so going to try some of that choc!
 
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