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betabyyesterday at 6:42 PM3 repliesview on HN

Meanwhile 2 billion Coca Colas are sold per day. That's over 75 million kgs of sugar/day - no one bats an eye.

Teen/kid addiction to sugar was and is a priority.

Social networks is a sugar for minds.


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shimmanyesterday at 6:45 PM

You must have been a child when Michelle Obama said that children needed better food and half the country lost their collective minds. Hard to do anything when corporations control what most legislation is passed.

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antiframeyesterday at 6:54 PM

"No one bats an eye" is a weird take when the Federal Government, via the Department of Health and Human Services, has literally just declared war on added sugar. [1] Also, lots of people have already changed their diets [2] regarded added sugar.

Sugar has been vilified for longer and more vociferously than social media use by kids, but that may be changing now.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2026-01-07/trump-admin...

[2]: https://ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(23)02461-9/pdf

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worikyesterday at 7:09 PM

> no one bats an eye.

Untrue

My six year old grand child made up a food related game for me to play with them that involved penalties for choosing food with sugar.

Somebody is getting to them, good