Giving Young Kids Coke

Cyberman60

hgotsparkle wrote: »

I agree with the majority: theres a much sugar in a can of coke as there is in fruit juice, if not more. Yes, fizzy drinks will rot your teeth, if you drink them constantly but the odd isn't going to do any harm.
I loved lemonade when I was little, I was allowed one glass on a saturday when I was at my cousins house. I'm not a Jeremy Kyle type, I'm a normal person who works and pays bills.
Thank you to those saying that diet drinks are worse! My OH doesn't believe me when I tell him this!

Diet drinks are worse due to aspartame etc, artificial sweeteners that are linked to pancreatic cancer. Too much sugar is also very bad though, not just for teeth though but also potentially carcinogenic.

I've tried explaining to a couple of my friends that daily fruit juice drinks that they take are bad because of the potential for diabetes, but it was like talking to the wall. :eek:

Personally, I try to avoid all sugar and artificial sweeteners. :A

Savingdad

I give my my 3 year old a sip of my coke if I have it, he normally drinks water or diluted squash.
I also allow him sweets, chocolate and crisps pretty much when he asks for them and do you know most of the time he is offered them by someone else he turns them down because its not a big thing for him, when he fancies a bit of something he can normally have it or I will explain if its to close to meal times or to early in the day.
When we ask him what he wants for lunch its normally a picnic which is a sandwich, cucumber, fruit, mini cheese and a bit of cold meat.
He is a happy chap who is active and happy and we are happy that he doesn't feel the need to gorge on sweets and crisps when he gets the chance.

antrobus

Spidernick wrote: »

...I'm sure we've all seen what happens to a 2p coin when you put it in coke. ...

The acid present in the Coke will help clean the coin?

You can say much the same thing about many soft drinks. And there is more acid (and sugar) in fruit juice than coke.


http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp

Cyberman60 wrote: »

Diet drinks are worse due to aspartame etc, artificial sweeteners that are linked to pancreatic cancer. ...

There is no link between aspartame and pancreatic cancer.

Aspartame-Cancer Link Refuted
http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20060404/aspartame-cancer-link-refuted

Study Reaffirms the Safety of Aspartame
http://www.caloriecontrol.org/pressrelease/study-reaffirms-the-safety-of-aspartame

Artificial sweeteners and the risk of gastric, pancreatic, and endometrial cancers in Italy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19661082

P.S. Sugar isn't carcenogenic either.

TBeckett100

Edwood_Woodwood wrote: »

The irony of my post was obviously lost on you.

My comment was in response to TBeckett100 who was at a Harvester and suggested this eaterie is frequented by Jeremy Kyle types.

Hence my comment essentially asking then why were they there then?

Sometimes I tire of michelen star food and it's nice to see how the other half live

notanewuser

My DD is 4 and has the odd lemonade - usually the full sugar version. I personally wouldn't give her anything with caffeine in it, so no coke etc. That said, she's prone to the odd sip of daddy's ale or cava/champagne if it's around.

As for the aspartame hoo-ha......... Best avoid milk, eggs and meat as well.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/the-truth-about-aspartame.aspx

Gavin83

Spidernick wrote: »

Today I saw a young kid of three or four with a can of coke, not even diet coke, but the standard one full of sugar and caffeine.

I think you'll find diet coke is worse for you than regular coke.

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

Multi Millionaire Simon Cowell eats there so you can hardly stereotype who chooses to dine there.

Restaurant snobbery always makes me laugh. I've eaten everywhere from the best restaurants in the world to the likes of KFC and can appreciate the meals that places like Harvester provide. Sure it won't win any awards but it serves its purpose and I've never had to complain there.

People really have no idea about the people who eat in any restaurant.

Spidernick wrote: »

This was in Leigh Park, a notorious area just outside Portsmouth that is so chavvy that it really should be in parts of Essex.

Surely Portsmouth is on par with Essex, neither is exactly classy!

notanewuser

Gavin83 wrote: »

I think you'll find diet coke is worse for you than regular coke.

There is NOTHING in any form of coke that is remotely good for you! How is diet coke any worse?

Jim_Jupiter

peachyprice wrote: »

You obviously haven't done much research on the effects of aspartame and acesulfame-K.

Neither have you.

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408440701516184

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230002915424

Aspartame being dangerous is anti-science nonsense usually peddled by the climate change deniers, the anti-vaccers, the homeopathists and the "Evolution is a myth" folk.

Gavin83

notanewuser wrote: »

There is NOTHING in any form of coke that is remotely good for you! How is diet coke any worse?

Surely it's logical. If you have two bad things one can still be worse for you but it doesn't make either good.

Cyanide is worse for you than uncooked chicken. Doesn't mean I'll be eating either.

notanewuser

Gavin83 wrote: »

Surely it's logical. If you have two bad things one can still be worse for you but it doesn't make either good.

Cyanide is worse for you than uncooked chicken. Doesn't mean I'll be eating either.

Which bit of diet coke makes it worse than normal coke then?