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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by djrobstep on Monday May 09, 2016 @08:16AM (#11659170)
Actually, they do encourage exactly that. Stating the obvious, the choices people make are a function of the choices available to them.
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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by matwood on Monday May 09, 2016 @10:36AM (#11660126)
So we should remove all choice that isn't considered safe? Who decides what is safe?
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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by Retra on Monday May 09, 2016 @07:19PM (#11664045)
Safety is something you can actually measure.
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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by mhurron on Monday May 09, 2016 @08:24AM (#11659210)
So people didn't over eat sugar until there were diabetes pills?
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Re:Nestlé Wants to Sell You Both Sugary Snacks and Diabetes ... by vidarh on Monday May 09, 2016 @09:44AM (#11659759)
He's saying that people didn't overeat sugar until they were given sufficiently easy access to significant quantities of sugar to make it easy to overeat it.
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