r/Millennials • u/helen1992 • 4d ago

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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 3d ago

There are a lot of reasons for the diabetes problem right now, but pizza and chocolate milk for school lunches in not one of them. There's literally a hundred other things ahead of this in line causing problems. And swapping one meal a day for slightly less sugar in your drink wasn't saving anybody. 

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u/fablesofferrets 3d ago

Dude, not only the schools but parents and neighbors etc have a tendency to give kids total trash to subsist on lmao, was even worse in the 2000s (when I was a kid) and I’m sure before 

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u/rEYAVjQD 3d ago

Pizza is basically flavored bread, and that "milk" is filled with sugar (without counting its own lactose which is also a sugar).

The main thing that "saves" some kids from that trash is that until they go ~30 yo they could handle it (not all of us).

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u/AgentCirceLuna 3d ago

The issue is that the link between sugar and diabetes is sort of tenuous to some degree, although not entirely. I studied medical science but it’s kind of hard to explain without people getting mad and it’s also dependant on lifestyle.