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Posted on 02/06/2012 3:42:25 PM PST by raptor22
Nanny State: The food police who've targeted everything from salt to Happy Meals now set their sights on regulating sugar as a controlled substance to fight obesity. The fat we should fear most, though, is overweight government.
The pursuit of happiness, one of those unalienable rights endowed to us by our Creator, is under assault once again by those who spend every waking moment worrying that somebody somewhere is actually enjoying his or her life without government supervision.
In an article titled "The Toxic Truth About Sugar," published in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (where else?) said worldwide consumption of sugar has tripled over the last 50 years and is now contributing to 35 million annual deaths, even if sugar-coated corn flakes aren't listed as the causes of death.
Whether these unfortunate victims of what may be called "cereal killers" died happy is also not recorded.
The researchers cite three major health risks — alcohol, tobacco and sugar.
"Two of these three — tobacco and alcohol — are regulated by governments to protect public health, leaving one of the primary culprits behind this worldwide health crisis unchecked," the researchers write.
We are not insensitive to the reality that abuse of any substance, from salt to sugar, can contribute to myriad health risks. Yet we are concerned that an overbearing nanny state, aided and abetted by the food police, will contribute to sterile, joyless lives where everything on our menu must be approved by the government.
Some researchers argue that saturated fat, not sugar, is the root cause of obesity and chronic disease. Others say that highly processed foods with simple carbohydrates are to blame.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
The foodpolice can just go to Hades.
First they came for our light bulbs....
Before you know it we will be given fish by the dear leader as we weep.
You forgot Firearms.
Bureau of Firearms-Alchohol-Sugar-Tobacco.
New acronym FAST. Like ICE. Sounds really neat. Probably reasoning behind thought.
And when you “FAST,” you eat less sugar and drink less alcohol! Although you can still smoke and shoot stuff.
The food police are just not paying attention!
They didn’t get the gov. memo.. The gov. has a need to thin the population (Agenda 21) you know.
Stop the Alcohol, Tobacco, Sugar ? 35,000,000 DEAD!!
Hel! No. What are you thinking ????? gov. needs to start passing out that Alcohol, Tobacco, Sugar. Throw in a few fire arms and we give you 75 to 100,000,000 deaths a year with no problem.
Hell we won’t need retirement or s.s. medicare or medicaid.
And that’s just a few for starters the gov. could save on.
They could figure a way to reuse those votes to.. (wink wink)
Just think how much the gov. could save, as that don’t give a da^@ about you anyhow..
• Slide Into the Ocean
• Be Removed From the Union
• Self Deport
• Have a Revolution to Imprison Fools
IMO, sugar isn't the issue, it's lack of regular exercise for various reasons.
Sugar was around long before the current “crisis” of overweight people, and I personally see a direct correlation between the onset of so many overweight people and HFCS.
...so call em’ the FAT-S!
Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, explosives and sugar should be a convenience store, not a government organization.
We need a bureau against overspending.
If we ever meet these people, we need to spit at their feet to show utter contempt for them.
It can only be a matter of time before we are clandestinely meeting in alleyways & cemetaries at night w/ fistfuls of paydays, hershey bars, and clark bars.
Leave us alone!
They’ll have to pry the sugar out of my cold fat hands.
Food Fascists and Food Fatheads. Seems appropriate that they go together - to hell. Much of this started with the far-left Center for Safety in the Public Interest. CSPI. Back in the early1 1970’s.
Amazing how these fascists have grown and how the media has given them credibility, a credibility that no sane medical person would ever give.
Obama is making Joe Stalin and Mao tse-tung jealous.
Pol Pot says, “Obama. You’ve still got a way to go before you get it right, but you are on the right track.”
Sugar is already a controlled substance.
Just try and buy over a hundred pounds.
My father used to buy in bulk to feed his bees,
have to jump through hoops and sign for it.
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