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<blockquote data-quote="killerkaz" data-source="post: 977945" data-attributes="member: 156475"><p>I haven't written anything on this website for a while but I do regularly read the different topics. With this sugar tax though I feel it will have the same effect as on alcohol and smoking, which is negligible really although I do see a lot of young people attitudes are different these days to smoking and drinking, but that is down to education more than tax. The only thing that will stop people consuming too much sugar is education. And not just the children either. It will probably take a generation as the older adults of today may not be so receptive to the information out there as the younger people, my grandfather used to say you had to die of something it might as well be something you enjoy as he smoked his head off. His generation and my parents didn't have fast food outlets, unless you count the local chippy, and certainly didn't have the confectionary that's out there these days either. They did, however, grow their own veg and have plenty of meat in one form or another. Sound familiar to you low carbers out there?(and I am one of them) everything was cooked in butter or lard, sugar was strictly rationed in the war. My mother is 84 and she is fit hale and hearty. The trouble is the government will be coming under huge pressure from the big companies who manufacturer high sugar food and other lovely delicious things which I have consumed in great quantities in the past thus rendering me diabetic and needing treatment for the rest of my life. But that is not what these companies are bothered with, just profit. And yes we do all have a choice and moderation is the key but as a reformed chocoholic I can tell you when sugar gets a hold the cravings can be as bad as I would imagine a smokers would be. (I don't smoke) diabetes was a wake up call as it was for many of us on here, I just wish I had had the information a few years ago when I could have limited the damage and avoided this condition. An extra few pence on chocolate, cakes and fizzy drinks wouldn't have stopped me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="killerkaz, post: 977945, member: 156475"] I haven't written anything on this website for a while but I do regularly read the different topics. With this sugar tax though I feel it will have the same effect as on alcohol and smoking, which is negligible really although I do see a lot of young people attitudes are different these days to smoking and drinking, but that is down to education more than tax. The only thing that will stop people consuming too much sugar is education. And not just the children either. It will probably take a generation as the older adults of today may not be so receptive to the information out there as the younger people, my grandfather used to say you had to die of something it might as well be something you enjoy as he smoked his head off. His generation and my parents didn't have fast food outlets, unless you count the local chippy, and certainly didn't have the confectionary that's out there these days either. They did, however, grow their own veg and have plenty of meat in one form or another. Sound familiar to you low carbers out there?(and I am one of them) everything was cooked in butter or lard, sugar was strictly rationed in the war. My mother is 84 and she is fit hale and hearty. The trouble is the government will be coming under huge pressure from the big companies who manufacturer high sugar food and other lovely delicious things which I have consumed in great quantities in the past thus rendering me diabetic and needing treatment for the rest of my life. But that is not what these companies are bothered with, just profit. And yes we do all have a choice and moderation is the key but as a reformed chocoholic I can tell you when sugar gets a hold the cravings can be as bad as I would imagine a smokers would be. (I don't smoke) diabetes was a wake up call as it was for many of us on here, I just wish I had had the information a few years ago when I could have limited the damage and avoided this condition. An extra few pence on chocolate, cakes and fizzy drinks wouldn't have stopped me. [/QUOTE]
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