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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Studies report that kids are drinking way more sugar-sweetened beverages now despite years of health guidance against doing so. Guidance to just drink water or milk is clearly not resonating for a large portion of the population. Kids are people, and people are biologically programmed to like sweet treats.

I hate stevia as a sweetener, but this is a better sweet beverage than something like a Capri Sun or Gatorade or especially a soda. Probably even better than straight juice from a glycemic impact perspective.

Harm reduction is the name of the game here. I approve. [/quote]

Agree. I don't think her target population is the typical DUMC parent. Low income kids are huge consumers of sugar-sweetened drinks. This stuff is available at Walmart and Safeway, not Whole Foods. I think she's trying to appeal to a demographic that typically doesn't have a lot of healthier options. https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/6420/76-of-low-income-children-regularly-drink-sugar[/quote]

Uh-huh.  And how much is she charging the low-income consumer for her sugary drink?  Ridiculous. If she was trying to influence low-income families to eat better, she should have thrown her weight behind either water or actual orange juice.   :roll: [/quote]

Look it up. Where I live its $.50 to a dollar per container, so comparable to other juice drinks but less expensive than juice. It is more expensive than things like koolaid and soda. Also, you should do your research: orange juice has far more sugar (and also needs to be refrigerated) and far more calories.

Finally, she has thrown her weight behind water and milk. On the website it says those are what kids under six should drink. https://plezi.com/pages/about

[b]I mean, I know you would love it if the poors were punished for being poor by only being rationed water, but that's not how the world works. She is offering an option[/b].[/quote]

What an incredibly bizarre take.  I'm not poor and my kids drink water, milk, and juice - not sodas or other sugary, fizzy drinks like the one MO is hawking.  YOU seem to think that advocating *only* healthy drinks like water is somehow unfair to "the poors"?  So weird.  [/quote]

When your kid is crying in the grocery store for sweets and you’re poor, you want to be their hero  since it’s only the kid thing you can afford.

Blame the advertisers for using bright colors to market this crap to children.[/quote]

OMG, just stop with this victim mentality.  [/quote]

What victim mentality? I posted above that I think MO is wrong here as well as all junk food advertisers.

But I also grew up poor and I know it’s not easy for poor people to quit buying junk. It’s easy, accessible, tastes good, and is cheap. 3 avocados or strawberries cost 4 or 5 bucks but a 2 liter soda cost less than that and so does 5 piece nuggets or a kids meal at McDonalds. It’s easy when you have more money to make healthier choices in regards to food. It isn’t as easy when you’re poor to avoid processed food[/quote]

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