Can you become sugar smart in 2022?
Fizz Free February is a brand new initiative launched by Somerset County Council. The aim is to encourage you to reduce your intake of sugar by cutting out fizzy drinks from your diet.
You can make the pledge by using the hashtag #gofizzfree
Fizz Free February is a great way to reduce your sugar intake by cutting out fizzy drinks. By going fizz free for all of February, it can help you on your way to drinking less sugary drinks for the rest of the year too.
Latest data from Public Health England on the nation’s diet shows that sugar now makes up 13.5% of 4- to 10-year-olds and 14.1% of teenagers daily calorie intake respectively, while the official recommendation is to limit sugar to no more than 5%.
To join in, just pledge to give up fizzy drinks for 28-days and look forward to the benefits it will bring:
- You could save £438 a year if you stopped drinking one bottle of soft drink, per day for a year.
- Drinking just one 330ml can of fizzy drink a day could add up to over a stone weight gain per year.
- Tooth decay is the leading cause for hospitalisation among 5–9-year-olds in the UK, with 26,000 children being hospitalised each year due to tooth decay – in other words, 500 each week.
There are so many other ways in which you could become sugar smart throughout February by visiting the Fizz Free website.
Cllr Clare Paul, Somerset County Council cabinet member for health and wellbeing, has told Tone News:
I am so pleased Somerset is supporting Fizz Free February. It is a fantastic way to cut down on sugar and make positive changes.
My son and I will be doing our best to take a moment to think about our drinks choices through Fizz Free February. Good luck to everyone else who going fizz free.
