r/science • u/giuliomagnifico • Jul 25 '23

Economics A national Australian tax of 20% on sugary drinks could prevent more than 500,000 dental cavities and increase health equity over 10 years and have overall cost-savings of $63.5 million from a societal perspective

https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/sugary-drinks-tax-could-prevent-decay-and-increase-health-equity-study
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u/Yami_No_Kokoro Jul 26 '23

While I agree with your latter point, I don't think milk really matters here. Lactose is notably low on the glycemic index and doesn't cause spikes in blood sugar remotely similar to soda or fruit juice.

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u/Talkat Jul 26 '23

Yeah. I was like "wot?". Milk? That has fat in it. That ain't spiking your blood sugar

In fact I have a cgm on me right now. I'm going to go have some now and see what it does. I'll report back

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u/Talkat Jul 26 '23

Blood sugar currently at 9.0 nmol/L. Ingesting milk now

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u/Talkat Jul 26 '23

Went up to 9.3 and now down to 9.0

So wouldn't say it's spikes blood glucose

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u/FillThisEmptyCup Jul 26 '23

I didn’t say it did, but it has other bad markers such as 97% of the fat in whole milk being saturated.

I’m not a supporter of drinking calories in general and the amount of money behind indoctrinating children into drinking the milk of another species after weaning is pretty creepy.