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Drinking soda is like drinking alcohol... But it is socially acceptable to shit on people who consume only of the alcohol.
Hmm
I guess drinking and driving is bad PR
Alcohol is incredibly worse, and it's much less accepted to criticize it. This is inept.
In this scenario, alcohol is less bad than soda. It has similar calories but they’re not entirely empty - different drinks have different advantages. For example beer tends to have vitamin b and a small amount of fiber, whereas soda is completely empty.
Alcohol is detrimental in different ways, especially when you have more than one
If by "scenario" you mean you only want to observe single parameter, then fine, but that's not really useful.
Alcohol is much worse than soda.
By this scenario, I me as n “the harm of sugary drinks”. The context is the title.
Of course alcohol is overall much more harmful but if we’re talking about empty calories and insulin insensitivity, there are worse choices