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Re:Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Aw... by drdaeman on Monday August 10, 2015 @10:03AM (#10034627)
Another side of this, is that if you buy/drink sugary beverages a lot outside of those social situations, you're also likely to get criticized about this. Every other peer tries to remind how unhealthy coke is, how one can clean rust with it and so on. And this is not out of health concerns, but just the same case of social situation conformance stereotypes - one's expected to drink while partying, but don't they dare to do the same alone at home.
Re:Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Aw... by stephengillie on Monday August 10, 2015 @11:56AM (#10035431)
And when some people start bringing up Coke's supposed rust-cleaning properties, others start bringing up Snopes and other contrary evidence.

Right now, there's too much "health noise" surrounding sodas, because they make so much money and so many people like them. We can't get a good "health signal" to "health noise" ratio to tell if these have healthy and/or unhealthy outcomes when we drink them. And so many of us just avoid them.