Why are people so ignorant about soda?!
Why are people so ignorant about soda?
My school has banned soda from the vending machines, but it was soda such as coke so that is good. then, they replace it with things that are just as crappy! they asked us what we thought and said that soda is unhealthy. this is WRONG. just because it is called soda does not mean that it is made of pure chemicals. beleive me, i would much rather be giving my money to good (and tasty!) companies like G.U.S. or something than having to keep down barf when walking by the 2 dollar tap water in a bottle, 1 percent colored artificially flavored juice crap, and other things they claim would be better for us than soda, which honestly has no definition limited to unnatural chemicals. please, i need to know that there are ohters on this planet who actually know something about the English language and what is good for their bodies
Additional Details3 weeks ago
i'm sorry but everyone except jenasaurusx is missing my point. i'm trying to get people to see that cakes and cookies and sodas don't have to contribute to your death everytime you eat them. i'm saying there are so many alternatives to foods that aren't made with disgusting, unnatural things. please realize this
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3 weeks ago
i'm sorry but everyone except jenasaurusx is missing my point. i'm trying to get people to see that cakes and cookies and sodas don't have to contribute to your death everytime you eat them. i'm saying there are so many alternatives to foods that aren't made with disgusting, unnatural things. please realize this
Aw, you poor frustrated thing! I feel your pain. I avoid high fructose corn syrups like the plague and it's amazing how many drinks touted as "healthy" contain it. That stuff is so processed the FDA won't even let companies label their products "all-natural" if it contains it (EDIT: OOPS - sorry, not yet! Give it time, hopefully). And then you've got drinks that are supposed to be be healthier because they're not loaded with calories but they ARE loaded with scary stuff like aspartame or Splenda/sucralose! I don't want to be an experiment to find out what this stuff does to you in twenty years. Thanks but no thanks.
Sodas that, while not GOOD for you, contain only natural ingredients are very hard to find unless you go to specialty stores. Or if you go into, say, Ralphs, there will be a sea of two liter bottles of crap and maybe three selections that don't contain crap like sodium benzoate or phosphoric acid or high fructose corn syrup or chemical sweeteners. And people consume that crap soda is VAST amounts! I know - I used to be a Diet Coke fiend!
I don't bother when I go to restaurants anymore to even ask if they have anything with real sugar. I just get water and leave it at that. At home I'll have maybe a small glass of sparkling lemonade (Trader Joe's! So good...) or I'll make my own sparkling juice with mineral water. I'll have a bottled soda with sugar maybe once a week or every couple weeks (Virgil's root beer is my favorite - so creamy!). All things in moderation (exept fruits and veggies!).
I'm sure the situation with your school comes down to two things. The first and foremost is ignorance. Most people don't put too much thought into nutrition, obviously. People just consume what is put on the market and trust that the people who make it know what's best for own bodies. WRONG. Most of them are either motivated by greed (all that chemical crap is cheaper than the good stuff) or they are just one person in a chain of ignorance that believes that if everyone else is doing it it just must be the way it's done. The second is that the companies that do vending typically (if ever?) offer the good stuff. Why? Izze comes in cans now (and are just fruit juice and carbonation). Blue Sky Naturals comes in cans. Hansen's comes in cans but THEY'RE NOT ALL -NATURAL. Not if they contain HFCS. I'm sure there's more out there. I don't think your school would been keen on selling glass bottles and most natural sodas come int hem because they care about things and glass is the best and most efficient thing to recycle.
If I were you I would put together a list of natural, healthy sodas and juices that would be a better alternative to what they're offering now. Really do your research and provide them with a fact list telling them WHY the choices they've made are not acceptable and why the ingredients in them are not healthy. Do your homework and present them with so much information they can't NOT pay attention, Maybe you could even contact a company like Blue Sky and ask them how you could go about convincing your school to offer their products. Maybe they'd work out some kind of delivery deal.
A lot of people are really ignorant. We all are ignorant about different thing. If everyone just kept their own knowledge to themselves no one would ever learn anything. So TEACH people! If going to your administrators doesn't work stage a protest by the vending machines. Make posters and put them up around school (not flyers - those contribute to littering). If it's important enough to you then it's worth working for to make change. Good luck!
I think it's stupid to get rid of soda machines, especially in high schools. It's not like they can't just walk down to the store or in most cases pull it right out of their own refrigerators. At my little brother's school they actually put in a MILK machine and a bunch of kids got sick because the machine couldn't keep it cold enough. Such a bright idea...have a vending machine containing the most perishable beverage they could think of. I drink a can of soda, sometimes two, every day and I'm fine, not obese or anything.
I'm with you there. I like soda, too, and have listened to the ranting and ravings against soda until I've just about had enough.
But I'm the first to admit that sometimes I don't make the best choices when it comes to food. So maybe we should think of it this way -- we will go along with the school's ban on soda and have water or whatever they suggest when we're in school. But choices after school will improve greatly since we can have soda. It's a win, win situation. We have some good -- that we just hate. And we can have some bad -- like the wonderful flavors of COKE.
Yeah that sounds like it does suck. I think my old school switched to some Fruitopia bullshtit too! One, even two sodas at school per day couldn't be that bad for your body. Lunch time is really the only time you would get to get one anyway right? So what is the big deal??? Politics baby. If a superintendent, school board, or other school official gets soda banned at school, they act like a hero and to a certain extent the parents see them as that too. Mainly because soda is bad for you, but I cant see how its their job to tell you you CANT have one. Its not like they were selling crack out of vending machines right? Now that would throw a wrench in things....well you know how kids act when they're all overdosed on soda...
I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew!
I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey!
My kids school did the same stupid thing, but go in the teachers lounge and you can get soda! Some example huh? I mean they make them drink milk with lunch and that's all they can get in the soda machine besides juice and water. They need some sugar to get through their boring school day, lol.
Sugared drinks are very bad for you and should not be sold in schools. Type II diabetes is running rampant in our youth and it is due to the overdosing of sugar.
To be honest, I think drinking sodas is unhealthy too (see links below). I don't think anything has changed our culture and eating habits in a more negative way over the last 150 years than the creation of sodas. So many people are addicted to them (yes, I was once too) and the companies are receiving ridiculous profits. Gas may be $3.00 a gallon (a fossil fuel that will run out one day), but a 20 ounce soda (sugar water) costs $1.49. That's crazy.
Anytime a corporation produces a product that has a legion of devoted addicts then something is wrong. I truly believe that it is harder for vegans to give up sodas than it is meat and dairy. The combination of intense advertising mixed with doses of caffeine cause soda to be almost irrestible to our society, not to mention the murder Coca-Cola has committed in South America to protect its product (see link below).
Idk. I used to love all kinds of soda cause they "taste" great without the calories but stopped drinking that stuff cause I know now that it's bad for my health.
If they would only read the material on the ingredients in the sodas-you'd think it would keep them away more. Like Carbonation-yuck!
Ingredients in soda:
our school is actually replacing all of the soda and vending machines with actual real fruit juices, vitamin water, and stuff like that. and they are making their own smoothies now and selling them. we also replaced all the chips/candies/cookies and have chinese, italian, american, and mexican bars where the cafeteria ladies actually make everything and its not frozen crap that they just heat up. so I'm really excited about all the new foods at our school. they're healthier and they taste better.
I feel that pulling soda machines from schools is the right thing to do. Diabetes is on the rise and showing up younger and younger.
Children are just that, children. They may think they are responsible enough to make decisions that effect thier health but they are not(even most adults can't) When I was in school I used to drink at least 2 20oz bottles of soda a day, candy, cookies etc. My high school offered a lunch option of double order of fries(and I bought that almost every day, and so did many other kids) I look back now and can't beleive the food choices I used to make.
Studies have shown that what we eat when we are younger, directly influences the food choices we make as adults. Unhealthy eaters as children, usually grow into unhealthy eaters as adults.
IMO water fountain is all that is nessesary in schools. Sugary juices are not better than soda, but people see juice and think it is healthy. Vending machines make money, and water fountains do not.
Unfortunatly the reality is that you are in school, thus a minor. The school, parents, etc will make decisions for you that you may not like, but they are for your own good. You are not able to make proper decisions by looking at every aspect and choosing the best alternative. Most kids live in the moment they don't look ahead to a future filled with diabetes, and other health problems.