The UK's Sun 'newspaper' reports that:
 
Iconic 90s alcoholic drink loved by clubbers is back on shelves as Brits ‘long to return to time when life was simpler’

...and contracting diabetes was so much easier.

Alcopops, as they were known, were notoriously sugar-rich and an essential part of a diabetes-diet.

The National Diabetes Foot Care Report (April 2022) summarizes the problem:

During the three-year period of 2017/18 to 2019/20:

  • There were 171,759 foot disease-related hospital admissions for patients with diabetes.

  • 97,175 individual patients had a hospital admission for foot disease and 34% had more than one admission over the three years.

  • There were 7,957 major amputations with a directly standardised rate of 8.1 major amputations per 10,000 population with diabetes per year.

  • There were 21,738 minor amputations with a directly standardised rate of 22.1 minor amputations per 10,000 population with diabetes per year.

  • Patients with diabetes that are male, from the most deprived areas, aged over 65 or of white ethnicity had greater risk of amputation.

Based on these statistics, it's debatable whether life is simpler and clubbing easier without one or more of your feet.

Australian podiatrist Bill "Odor-Eater" Helsop told FNN:

If people really want to return to a drink available when life was simpler, try Ovaltine, which was launched in 1904.

Life really was simpler then: No mobile phones, internet, social media or even TV. Just the wireless.

So I'll leave you with this from the popular radio show The Ovaltineys:

And now the happy Ovaltineys
Wish you all adieu,
But don't forget your Ovaltine
It's very good for you.

Hey Muriel! Fetch me a tinnie. I'm parched.