warning labels on soda?

**Sara Noel** · 07-15-2005, 08:09 AM

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in709023.shtml

**AmyMCGS** · 07-15-2005, 08:52 AM

Personally, I think that's ridiculous. What's next-- candy bars? Potato chips? Eventually everything would have warnings on it, and then nobody would read any of them.

I have had a bad habit of drinking way too much Mountain Dew for the past 15 years. A label wouldn't have made any difference. I knew that it wasn't good for me, but, I didn't care. I think that's the way with many people... it's not that they can't figure out that soda is bad for them, it's just that they enjoy it, so they drink it anyway.

I would rather see this money spent on educating children about obesity and making sound nutritional choices. Make every subject in school a part of it-- use math to work out calories, art class to figure out proper portion sizes, and health and gym classes to talk about how necessary exercise is.

OK... getting of my

now....

**Michelle** · 07-17-2005, 05:23 PM

Originally posted by AmyMCGS
Personally, I think that's ridiculous. What's next-- candy bars? Potato chips? Eventually everything would have warnings on it, and then nobody would read any of them.

I have had a bad habit of drinking way too much Mountain Dew for the past 15 years. A label wouldn't have made any difference. I knew that it wasn't good for me, but, I didn't care. I think that's the way with many people... it's not that they can't figure out that soda is bad for them, it's just that they enjoy it, so they drink it anyway.

I would rather see this money spent on educating children about obesity and making sound nutritional choices. Make every subject in school a part of it-- use math to work out calories, art class to figure out proper portion sizes, and health and gym classes to talk about how necessary exercise is.

OK... getting of my now....

Well said, Amy. ITA!

**Missy** · 07-17-2005, 05:49 PM

I agree Amy. Well said.

I say this as i chug down my second Dr. Pepper of the day...

**forestdale** · 07-17-2005, 06:06 PM

I think there should be warnings on diet soda. Many people don't know what artificial sweeteners contain.

http://www.mercola.com/forms/sweet_misery.htm

**YankeeMom** · 07-18-2005, 07:20 AM

Ok, if a person doesn't KNOW that soda is loaded with sugar, they got more problems than potential obesity or tooth decay!

Jacobson has filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration, requesting that warning labels be put on soft drinks with more than 13 grams of refined sugar for each 12 ounces.

What's next? Fruit juice? because IMO little kids get more tooth decay from the sugars in fruit juice than soda. 16 oz. Orange juice has 23 grams of sugar! How about that skim milk replacement? Does he not know that skim milk has 12g of sugar too?

(note: anyone else a little confused? Does he mean 13grams per 12oz or 13 grams per oz in each 12oz can? )

Not to mention, 7 grams of sugar = 1 tablespoon of sugar...so the sodas he wants warning labels on have less than 2 T of sugar in them? That's less than what most people have in their Starbucks coffee.

What a waste of time, energy, & money.

**Kori** · 07-18-2005, 06:06 PM

I rarely drink sodas nowadays but a few years back I used to drink several of them a day. My mother knew that and she warned me about it as a child.

I've always been big boned and so has my family (I was even born a big baby, weighed about 8 pounds or so). And drinking all those sodas (and other bad eating/drinking habits) just made me gain even more weight very quickly.

But I knew before all that escalated and I still continued to do it, so it's on me. I don't expect anybody to do me or anyone else any "favors". I've got other things to worry about, like taking better care of myself.

Just as a side note... My grandmother loves Coca-Cola and Pepsi and she drinks about 2 or 3 cans a day... and she has diabetes! She says since she's almost 75 years old, she's not long for this earth anyway, so she'll enjoy eating and drinking what she wants. And so far, she's been able to keep her sugar level in check pretty well. But she too is very aware of the consequences.