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by slowburning 2926 days ago
The point you make is an important distinction. It's really effortless to put down 44oz of soda but very hard to eat the sugar equivalent of ~6lbs of carrots (even if you are juicing them 6lbs is a lot of carrot juice).

http://www.sugarstacks.com/carrots.htm

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There's an age at which drinking a sugary soda becomes difficult...
Related, it was recently discovered that there is a limit to how much sugar you can (comfortably) consume, unless you are a child. In children there is no limit.
Citation/link, please?
It was a while ago. I remember reading it on reddit, so I googled "no limit sugar children reddit", this is it!

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/26/140753048/ki...