Sugar Tax

Me I can't stand the stuff, but if you drink the whole bottle you still won't get twice the sugar of a can of coke oh and obviously I don't drink that either any more. Most kids and teenagers I know drink far more coke than Fijj well the two living in my house do any way.

 

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Honey sends my BSLs sky high! As does Jams.

 

Trouble is the tax is only aimed at sugary pop and totally ignores all the other products that contain huge amounts of sugar if they really want to control the amounts of sugar being consumed it's got to be across the board concentrating on one product out of many aint going to cut it.

 

And not just sugar. The amount of nutritionally poor carbs some people eat is shocking. While the sugary pop might contribute to their problems, it's their food choices that have an impact too. I'm always stunned by the number of people who exist on frozen prepared food and take aways, and never seem to cook a proper meal.

 

I wish the government would put proper cookery lessons on the curriculum rather than Food Technology. It's an investment in health that'd be fairly easy to do, and healthy choices could be included as part of that, including not drinking too many sugary drinks, etc.

 

Many of us may remember Home Economics in school, it should be made compulsory as it give you the basic foundations of food and how to cook.

But food aside the lifestyle of children is much different now to past generations, we didn't have play consoles, tv in our own room and had to walk or bike to school, we had to make our own entertainment playing outside and sport at school like cross-country was compulsory and non-negotiable.

 

I used to love Home economics at school. cooking from scratch, teachers tasting it ( our H E's teacher would always collar the Science teacher, Mr Cox, we all used to giggle and talk about it ) and such pride when we took home a meal that we cooked (a pudding or a cake, which was not an every day occurrence) so my mum had a night off, I was so chuffed

 

At my teenagers junior school, the children and parents dug up area's to plant fruit and veg, it was a great hit and successful too. I loved Home Economics at school, obviously writing about it is less interesting than hands on, but cooking the produce was great

 

And nothing has changed.
The urban Victorian poor had access to a lot of street food, pies, etc. And goodness knows what dire ingredients were in them! Watered milk, watered beer, faggots, pasties...

Back then, it could well be cheaper to buy half a hot pie on the way home, rather than a coalscuttle of fuel to heat your garret for the night... decisions, decisions...

 

Though those in the country side seemed to do better for example I had a great grand uncle who lived not far from Lynton and Lynmouth. All I know about him oddly enough is what he used to eat for breakfast and that he spent his working day in the valley of rocks breaking boulders down with a sledge hammer .

From what I have been told his morning meal usually consisted of :

Six rashers of bacon
six sausages
six eggs
loads of fried tomatoes
and a loaf of bread with lashings of butter

A couple of pots of tea
Mind you he was a rather large man by all acounts
not sure why all the sixes must have been his lucky number maybe.

 

AWESOME!!!!

I have to admit, with the child mortality rates, the malnutrition, pollution and working conditions, most of those urban poor probably didn't create another generation, so they are unlikely to be our ancestors.

Half my family were Cornish fishermen, so while I doubt they had a varied intake, it may go a long way to explain why I do well on a fair wack of protein in my diet.

 

Mine were highland hunters.
And boy do I love my meat and fish.
There's definitely something in it @Brunneria

 

I certainly feel that the sugar tax could be unfair to we T1 DB's since when I go hypo its a NECESSITY to have some concentrated sugar handy, be it Mars bars, Crunchie Bars or sweet drinks when available, so why should I have to pay more for something which is a LIFELINE for people such as me?

 

Unfortunately is the honey if it shot up immediately.

 

Assuming no tax at all paid on dextro tablets??

 

Good point dd, I worked in a pharmacy a few years back and the owner did mention at some point about taxable items, so we had to press the correct button for the correct merchandise on the till.

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I certainly feel that the sugar tax could be unfair to we T1 DB's since when I go hypo its a NECESSITY to have some concentrated sugar handy, be it Mars bars, Crunchie Bars or sweet drinks when available, so why should I have to pay more for something which is a LIFELINE for people such as me?

Hi there, I do agree it can be a lifeline, but a few pence isn't going to break the bank, after all, sweets and chocolates are consumed by a large % of the general population.

It's going to be difficult applying it, because many different avenues will be affected if a sugar tax is introduced, ie why was this certain product taxed and another not, there could be out and out war within the industry, like the advert for the 2 types of Twix, (just a little whimsical thought )