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I think the difference between having a bag of candy every day and a diet pop every day is that it isn't healthy to have candy that often. As far as we currentl

I think the difference between having a bag of candy every day and a diet pop every day is that it isn't healthy to have candy that often. As far as we currently know, there isn't anything wrong with that level of diet pop consumption. I am in the same boat, I probably have 4-5 diet pop drinks per week. However, if it was naturally sweetened pop I wouldn't consider it OK to drink more than one a week. Everything in appropriate moderation. Although, to be fair, I don't consider the level of pop I drink to be "reduced", but it's less than what some children will drink if left unmoderated.

zzalpha 11y ago
Yeah, but keep in mind, the author of the article isn't saying daily intake is okay because of the artificial sweeteners. I read it to mean, the kids are going to drink pop 4-5 times a week. We give them artificially sweetened pop so that it's "healthy". Contrasting this again with candy: if a parent said "I give my kids candy every day with their dinner, but I make sure it has sucralose in it", I'd still find it odd, because candy shouldn't be a daily occurrence. And yet, for some reason, soda is. It really is very strange, don't you think?
- dragonwriter 11y ago
  I read it as that all of quantity, sugar content, and caffeine content are concerns, so the parents have: 1. Limited overall quantity of soda permitted to less than is typical for the age range, 2. Limited most of the consumption within that limited quantity to caffeine-free options, 3. Limited most of the consumption within that limited quantity to sugar-free options. I don't see anything to suggest that sugar-free soda is perceived as positively "healthy", only that it is a mitigation of one of the sources of unhealthiness (as is the caffeine-free limitation), but that other concerns exist, hence the overall quantity limitation.
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zzalpha 11y ago

Yeah, but keep in mind, the author of the article isn't saying daily intake is okay because of the artificial sweeteners. I read it to mean, the kids are going to drink pop 4-5 times a week. We give them artificially sweetened pop so that it's "healthy". Contrasting this again with candy: if a parent said "I give my kids candy every day with their dinner, but I make sure it has sucralose in it", I'd still find it odd, because candy shouldn't be a daily occurrence. And yet, for some reason, soda is. It really is very strange, don't you think?

dragonwriter 11y ago
I read it as that all of quantity, sugar content, and caffeine content are concerns, so the parents have: 1. Limited overall quantity of soda permitted to less than is typical for the age range, 2. Limited most of the consumption within that limited quantity to caffeine-free options, 3. Limited most of the consumption within that limited quantity to sugar-free options. I don't see anything to suggest that sugar-free soda is perceived as positively "healthy", only that it is a mitigation of one of the sources of unhealthiness (as is the caffeine-free limitation), but that other concerns exist, hence the overall quantity limitation.
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