No surprise to us, but simpleminded parents and government officials out there need this sort of hard research data to cram what should be obvious into their narrow minds...
It's pretty much just saying what people can already know I guess. Soft drinks don't make for steady heads. Why they let companies plaster coca cola vending machines throughout schools is beyond me.
Latest reports from the Department of Stating the Obvious, University of London: * Fridges are good for keeping things cool * Putting things in a hot oven turns them hot * Drinking alcohol can make you drunk Really, we know this already, why do we need the research to prove it?
That's why. Because hiring out the outlet opportunities makes a tidy buck for a financially struggling school.
Since when has hyperactivity been a "mental health problem"? In a lot of school, it's hard to get stuff other than soft drinks. Up until this year, our school only sold coke etc in the vending machines, and the tap water was undrinkable. So if you were thirsty, it was sugar or nothing.
Yes but IIRC schools are paid on performance these days, and loading all the kids up on sugar isn't going to do anything favourable for the kids grades, so while it'll bring in some cash, it makes the schools dependent on the drinks companies when, by not taking the drinks, they would probably get increased funding from the govt. as a result of the improved grades the kids would get. Quite crazily, we eat about 10 times the sugar we did 100 years ago. No wonder people in the 1800 and 1900's got tonnes of work done, they weren't all on constant sugar highs
Yeah, but you see, there you go being all logical and informed. The point is that the people who make these sorts of decisions don't realise that sugar is a bad thing. They don't think, and draw the logical conclusions you do.
