Hey, Let's Regulate Sugar

[barbara]

The book 'Sugar Blues' is an essential read if you want to understand the motivation behind regulating sugar.

[finnbow]

For sure, we should stop paying subsidies to sugar growers. As far as regulating sugar, it's a fool's errand. People are gonna eat what they want to eat. Looking at the obesity chart above, I assume that those countries with lesser rates of obesity didn't get there by virtue of sugar regulation.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Dude, this is the corporate world you just described.

Who is it that's putting the shit into the food?

Who is it that is trying to sever any financial ties to retired employees as opposed to who is trying to maintain old age benefits?

Corporations like American Airlines and the Republican Party. That's who.

You have it backwards, my good man.

It's the employers that just want you to wander off and drop dead after they're done with you. Hell, those are the same people who bitch the most about paying into SS and Medicare. Contribute tens of millions to the campaigns of "entitlement" slashing politicians. They want their tax cut, and don't give a shit what they have to screw you out of to get it.

Figure it out ferfuksake.

Dave

As former governor of CO, Richard Lamm said "Old people have a duty to die."

[Bigerik]

Originally Posted by finnbow

For sure, we should stop paying subsidies to sugar growers. As far as regulating sugar, it's a fool's errand. People are gonna eat what they want to eat. Looking at the obesity chart above, I assume that those countries with lesser rates of obesity didn't get there by virtue of sugar regulation.

No, I'm sure they don't. But it's getting to a point where you almost have to think that Americans are just too stupid to figure it out themselves.

Imagine the lawsuits if people really started understanding how dangerous sugar is! All those obese folks would at least have someone to blame.

I can't remember which movie I saw this in. Maybe Supersize Me? But they compared the number of times a year a kid would get a message from their folks or schools to eat healthy, vs the number of times they got a message to eat sugary and fatty shit from corporate America via commercials, etc. The eat healthy message was completely overwhelmed and buried.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by barbara

The book 'Sugar Blues' is an essential read if you want to understand the motivation behind regulating sugar.

Correct. It makes people less productive and more prone to disease and depression. But, we have a right to shovel it down our throats-----We do, don't we?

(Let me bring up my interactive constitution....something tells me I'm not going to find it anywhere.)

Dave

[Bigerik]

Happy post 9000, Dave.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

For sure, we should stop paying subsidies to sugar growers. As far as regulating sugar, it's a fool's errand. People are gonna eat what they want to eat. Looking at the obesity chart above, I assume that those countries with lesser rates of obesity didn't get there by virtue of sugar regulation.

Actually, if you look at that chart closely, it doesn't have much to do with wealth vs. poverty either. At the top of the chart is Japan....hardly a third world country.

Dave

[Oerets]

Type two Diabetes has a direct connection with the diet.

Be surprised at how much sugar we do eat.


http://sugarstacks.com/ Check it out.






Barney

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

Happy post 9000, Dave.

I need to get a life.

Dave

[barbara]

Dave, the book has nothing to do with depression, it is about the political wars fought throughout history over sugar.
At one time it was considered a drug for the elite and kings ruled who would have access to it.
The historical perspective and the wars and regulations throughout hundreds of years to where we are now is enlightening.