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France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

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Re: France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

#31
post #5

Why do they mention only the country with the _second_ lowest obesity rate?

Probably because some insignificant (read: small) country has the lowest rate. It's easier to make comparisons when the population size is in the same order of magnitude.

I wonder what the relative smoking rates are...

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2005-08-28/news/SMOKING_...

Some researchers have hypothesized that America's obesity rate is somewhat correlated with dropping smoking rates.

Re: France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

#32

I remember my vacation in the states (in the South). I got served a absolutely massive glass of coca-cola with my dinner. When I had finally managed to finish it a waiter came and refilled the bloody thing when I wasn't paying attention. How can you enjoy your meal with that much to drink?

When you don't want to drink any more the trick is to just stop drinking.

Re: France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

#33

I remember my vacation in the states (in the South). I got served a absolutely massive glass of coca-cola with my dinner. When I had finally managed to finish it a waiter came and refilled the bloody thing when I wasn't paying attention. How can you enjoy your meal with that much to drink?

>I remember my vacation in the states (in the South). I got served a absolutely massive glass of coca-cola with my dinner. When I had finally managed to finish it a waiter came and refilled the bloody thing when I wasn't paying attention. How can you enjoy your meal with that much to drink? Are you from a place where there is a cultural taboo against only drinking part of the beverage a restaurant serves you? Saying…

Are you from a place where it’s culturally accepted to let left-over drinks simply go to waste?

Re: France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

#34
post #14

Is it just me who's thinking that individuals in modern societies are not capable anymore of making meaningful decisions, including how much to drink? We're sacrificing freedom here because we became incapable. That scares me.

now you're really generalizing.

Re: France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

#35

I remember my vacation in the states (in the South). I got served a absolutely massive glass of coca-cola with my dinner. When I had finally managed to finish it a waiter came and refilled the bloody thing when I wasn't paying attention. How can you enjoy your meal with that much to drink?

>I remember my vacation in the states (in the South). I got served a absolutely massive glass of coca-cola with my dinner. When I had finally managed to finish it a waiter came and refilled the bloody thing when I wasn't paying attention. How can you enjoy your meal with that much to drink? Are you from a place where there is a cultural taboo against only drinking part of the beverage a restaurant serves you? Saying…

Most countries in the world will have taboos on wasting food, built over thousands of years of scarcity.

Re: France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

#36

French (expat) here, can't remember ever seeing any when I lived in France. Have I always been at the wrong restaurants?

I can't talk about france, but where I live (Hungary) this isn't a thing in any restaurant.

It is a thing in some american fast food chains though.

Re: France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

#37
post #5

Why do they mention only the country with the _second_ lowest obesity rate?

Probably because some insignificant (read: small) country has the lowest rate. It's easier to make comparisons when the population size is in the same order of magnitude.

Romania - which is in first place - has around 20 million inhabitants.

Sure, it's a developing country but so is Bulgaria, which is both less developed and has a considerably higher rate of obesity.

Re: France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

#38
post #5

Why do they mention only the country with the _second_ lowest obesity rate?

Strange, indeed. Romania has the lowest obesity rates according to Eurostat [1]. I don't see any reason why you wouldn't want to mention Romania except that Italy's low rate fits so well into the stereotype...

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

Re: France bans unlimited sugary drink refills

#39
post #14

Is it just me who's thinking that individuals in modern societies are not capable anymore of making meaningful decisions, including how much to drink? We're sacrificing freedom here because we became incapable. That scares me.

Giant and strong Industries are manipulating us. They invest billions for this. We are too weak to fight against this, these overwhelming number of battlefronts : it's too difficult, too complex, too time consuming, so we give up. We have no choice but to give up on so many of them. We have no choice. This regulation will help us take less sugar in. And that's a good thing.
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