13 year old son in trouble for selling Pepsi at school

Bambywamby

I agree - the best way to eat is a varied and balanced diet. However pure orange juice, homemade lemonade or a glass of water do not give my son migraine but products with aspartame do. So you keep guzzling your cancer inducing artifical chemicals and I will keep to the good natural stuff.

POPPYOSCAR

It does not matter what you do sometimes diet wise you can't win!!!

I thought I was being good encouraging my children to eat lots of fruit and drink fruit juices but my dentist tells me this is not a good thing!!!

pulliptears

personally I've always gone for 'everything in moderation' and have 2 healthy kids who are ideal weight and have no fillings.

daz501

Bambywamby wrote: »

I agree - the best way to eat is a varied and balanced diet. However pure orange juice, homemade lemonade or a glass of water do not give my son migraine but products with aspartame do. So you keep guzzling your cancer inducing artifical chemicals and I will keep to the good natural stuff.

Everything is technically bad for you. Breathing air in cities is bad for you. I personally have a healthy diet, eat lots of veg, make fruit smoothies etc, but I also occasionally eat fast food and drink fizzy drinks.

I go for diet pop normally, but even this is loaded with caffeine so I have it occasionally. I'm sorry to hear about your son's allergies, but the point I am making is that kids selling sweets in the playground has nothing to do with your son's condition.

If he doesn't want to feel ill, he will not consume products that cause him the irritation. You can buy drinks and sweets ANYWHERE. Other kids simply profit from the time and place at which this contraband is sold.

I'm sure your child knows better and would not buy such things in school time?

daz501

pulliptears wrote: »

personally I've always gone for 'everything in moderation' and have 2 healthy kids who are ideal weight and have no fillings.

I have one tiny filling. I ate sweets as a child but i brushed regularly and had a good diet and exercise all the time. I would educate my kids about these things rather than spend my ttime controlling them and feeling as though i'm putting out fires.

shellsuit

Bambywamby wrote: »

I agree - the best way to eat is a varied and balanced diet. However pure orange juice, homemade lemonade or a glass of water do not give my son migraine but products with aspartame do. So you keep guzzling your cancer inducing artifical chemicals and I will keep to the good natural stuff.

You never touch alcohol then?

Bambywamby

Yes Shellsuit I do on occasion. I only like beer and then I stick to German beers that have 'Reinheitsgebot' on the bottle or can. Reinheitsgebot is the German beer purity law that dictates beers should only be made of water, barley and hops. Artifical chemicals and other junk is not meant to be added to these beers. I also find hangovers are a lot less pungent too.
So as I said...you keep guzzling your cancer inducing artifical chemicals and I will keep to the good natural stuff.

pulliptears

in terms of the aspartame side of the debate, I don't buy it simply because I'm so allergic to it that one sip can leave me with agonising tummy pains for hours.

Derivative

Diet drinks are just a daft idea in general.
They taste worse and they are a tool to stop people eating healthily.

If you take the fat out of McDonalds, it's still McDonalds.

If you want a Pepsi, get a bloody Pepsi, you might as well enjoy it. If you're on a "diet", get some self control and stop drinking the stuff.

Bloody expensive too.

I had a good laugh at our poster here that seems to think aspartame is on par with injecting cancerous cells into your bloodstream though. If your son gets 'migraines' from drinking Pepsi Max then he is an exception. The drink would stop selling pretty fast if that was the case for most.

Bambywamby

Ah well, ignorance is indeed bliss.