Interesting, thanks. I wonder if they were pressured or…?
The Swiss population consumes on average 100 grams of sugar, or 25 sugar lumps, per day, which is twice as much as recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
I’ll be buying another brand of tonic. I don’t eat too much sugar and with the one or two G and Ts per week at most at the weekend, I’d like to decide whether it’s got sugar in it and not the nanny state.
“Full-fat” makes me laugh. There is zero fat (and zero protein) in it. It’s just carbs (aka sugar).
Eating fat does not inherently make you fat. Weight gain is more about overall caloric intake and the balance of different types of calories in the diet.
Of course they were and are. Involving the competent federal council, Berset in this case, clearly says so. There’s also the schyzophrenic situation that the farmers get subsidised for producing sugar beets while consumption should fall.
The question is whether it’s more productive to keep nudging the industry or to beat it into submission. I tend to favoring nudged cooperation because you can insist on the spirit rather than precise verbiage of the agreement.
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This is an old thread but this post does explain the sugar reduction measures to reduce obesity. It’s a voluntary thing.
Great idea to replace half the sugar with Sweetener chemicals linked to cancer,
They haven’t really thought this through though, have they?
There’s been an argument forever here, that people should be allowed to smoke in Switzerland as self-responsibility is part of Swiss culture.
How about the same for sugar?
Or how about a low sugar, no sweetener version?
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