Why LAUSD cut down on sodas?
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I answered a similar question a while ago.  It could be for any of these reasons.  \n\nThey give empty calories and no nutrition.\n\nThey can lead to weight gain.\n\nAs a result you may drink less water, and water is much better for you.\n\nBecause they may make you feel full, you don't eat as much good food, so you don't have good nutrition.\n\nThey cause tooth decay.\n\nThey have additives and food colouring that are not good for you.\n\nToo much leads to conditions such as type 2 diabetes.\n\nDid you know that if you put a nail in a glass of cola the nail will dissolve? Soft drink is hard on your stomach.\n\nDid you know that when the main ingredient used in making the brown soft drinks is being transported, the tanker truck has to carry a "hazardous materials" symbol? \n\nThey cost money, and water from your tap is free.\n\nThe empty containers add to the mess in our landfills. \n\nMaking the containers uses up our resources.\n\nThe empty containers litter our environment.\n\nIt gives a bad example to young children.
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Well I'll tell you what i did... \nI went cold turkey... just stop... don't cut back, just stop... and r.w Knudsen has excellent spritzers... basically just sparkling fruit juice... of course if it's the caffeine you're worried about just switch to caffeine free soda...
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School is preparing students for the real world, and in the real world they will be faced with the choice of eating healthy or eating crap.  They should be able to make their own decisions about what they stuff into their bodies, with proper education.
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The Principal of my kids primary school has banned all junk food at breaktime, only water and fruit or healthy snacks allowed. She started this in September and says the concentration and behavior of the children up until lunchtime has noticibly improved!\n\nSo i have to say if it is calming disruptive children then Im all for it.
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Because if the composition is too acidic or too basic one way or the other, the soda could be toxic.\n\nAlso, it wouldn't taste good or sell well.
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As you may know sodas not that good for you. So you shouldnt drink any kind of soda to much. But otherwize there is a drink called jolt. Jolt has twice the caffine and twice the sugar. I would stay away from that one.
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You need 2 fewer drinks from now on...
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They've done experiments with cutting tooth enamel into little cubes and putting them in coke, letting them sit for a month.  They eventually dissolved.\nHowever, this does not take into effect practical drinking.  1. Sodapop does not stay in your mouth for MONTHS, even if you drink it nice and slow.  It'd take 10 years of drinking a can a day to total a month of it being in your mouth.\n2. It doesn't really contact your teeth completely, unless you suck it through your teeth with a straw.\n3. Our mouths have saliva, which will mix with the sodapop and dilute it.  Pretty sure it covers the teeth too.\n4. Teeth are much bigger than the small cubes they cut tooth enamel into for the test.  There's also less surface area to volume ratio due to being bigger.\nSo maybe if from age 10 to 90 you drink 3 20-oz. bottles a day every day and slosh them around in your mouth a lot, your teeth might shrink a little bit, but it's not a significant threat otherwise.
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Well, I'm a gal whose 5'4 and 110 pounds, so I don't eat alot of soda and hotdogs, so if you are in an area where a lot of people are trying to stay trim, here's a few ideas........\n1) Most vendors like yourself have a zillion regular sodas and maybe one diet coke in their fountain.  Try adding a few more diet options, there are people looking for a diet orange soda, believe me!  (remember to sell water as well)\n2) Offer turkey dogs, or low fat dogs and ADVERTISE THAT FACT. (or even a tofu dog?)\n\nIf you are in an area where you customers are less concerned with healthy choices, I would love to see a vendor offer a spicy bratwurst!  Yummy and different!!!!\n\nUh-oh, you made me hungry!\n\nPS I love saurkraut, just throwing that out there.
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Bad for you....is a difficult question to answer.   It is high in sugar and caffeine, which in certain situations can be very helpful.  It isn't good for you in terms of nutrition, but I don't see anything negative about having one every now and then.  If you need a pick me up, it is completely safe.   It has about the same about of sugar as 1 soda and more caffeine.   I would not recommend drinking more than 1 per day.
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because they contain acids in them.  You can neutralize it by drinking milk (milk is a base).
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The soda is "carbonated" meaning it contains carbon dioxide. When you pour the soda into the glass the carbon dioxide escapes from the liquid. The bubbles you see are little pockets of carbon dioxide.
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Because the government makes a lot of money from them. Alchohol actually has some health benefits in moderation. Tobacco is just a big money maker
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Contact the school district and ask them. Chances are, it's a result of the budget cuts. This happened in Santa Barbara County, too. They cut the number of clases available, cut all enrichment classes and only allowed kids who were behind to attend summer school. I'm sure it's happened across the country. Schools are really hurting right now.\n\nOther signs of budget cuts: \nTaking out every other light in the classroom.\nNot enough text books for every kid.\nExtra-curricular activities cut.\nFewer non-required classes.\nCuts or elimination of music, drama, art, journalism programs. \nReduction or elimination of field trips.\nCuts in teacher supply budget.\nLarger class size.\n\nThe only thing that hasn't been cut are the salaries of the administrators. Check it out. Your superintendent of the school system probably has a larger salary than the governor's (not counting Arnold's other income, of course, but just his governor's salary.)\n\nThank you George Dubya.
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Most soft drinks, particularly colas, are extremely acidic. To prevent acidic poisoning from cola (or other acid) consumption, the body uses two strategies. One is to use alkaline blood buffers (for example, sodium bicarbonate and sodium phosphate) to buffer (neutralize) the acid. The other strategy is to convert these volatile liquid acids into less-reactive solid acids. However, there were no colas thousands of years ago, so our bodies did not evolve to deal effectively with the onslaught of acids that many people consume today.\n\nWhen the body's limited supply of alkaline buffers is defeated, these toxic acidic waste products accumulate in the body, causing significant health damage.
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Cut back on your sugar intake.
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wasn't starbucks the one that tried charging $100 per case of water to the firefighters that were trying to clean up 9/11? personally that's why i've got issues with them. yeah they issued an apology and then donated some money but the fact that they even did that in the first place disgusts me.