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Scientists Quantified The Harm of Sugary Drinks, And It's Devastating (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sugar kills more and more people are certified land whales.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're not going to win this argument, sugar intake is inwardly destructive, while alcohol is inward and outward. The victims of alcohol are not just the people that consume it, whether it be from drinking and driving, spousal abuse, watching someone you love deteriorating their brain and liver, etc.

This is not apples to apples at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Deff not apples to apples...

But which one is a public health emergency and which one has bigger lobby?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Alcohol is definitely a big public health issue. But if you think that getting rid of it is an option, we tried that once and it didn't go too well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

We ain't getting rid of sugar either... I am positing that we should be treating sugar like alcohol.

Policy and socially.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And car accidents are still more dangerous, and that's ignoring the non-deadly dangers of alcohol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Most car accidents are result of poor infrastructure and human error... Not drunk drivers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

In the US 31% of car fatalities are linked with alcohol consumption. I don't think you can argue that it's negligible.

I doubt that poor infrastructure is causing more than that, and as far as I know there is no magic solution to solve human error (while there is, for drunk driving: don't drink).

Also this conversation was about comparing it to sugar, and I will take a bet and say that sugar causes car accidents, violence and rape much less often than alcohol.