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To: SatinDoll
I avoid all food items containing refined sugar and wheat products.

That's nice.

Now ...

Do you want to put a gun to my head (or have a government agent put his gun to my head) and try to force me to do the same?

84 posted on 04/04/2012 12:34:18 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Put a gun to your head? Nope. Have the government force people to eat like I do? Nope.

I don’t eat wheat because it makes me physically ill (probably an allergy), and do not sugar because then I can’t lose weight. If I eat a donut, not only do I experience indigestion but I gain a pound. My doctor has told that is impossible but hey! My scale doesn’t lie, so I haven’t eaten a donut in forty-one years.

The Frist Amendment was intended for political speech, but it works just as well to warn people about things out in the marketplace that could harm them. Ultimately, the individual is responsible for the health and well being of him/herself. Government as nanny should be unnecessary.


86 posted on 04/04/2012 12:59:18 PM PDT by SatinDoll (No Foreign Nationals as our President!)
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To: ArrogantBustard; SatinDoll

>Do you want to put a gun to my head (or have a government agent put his gun to my head) and try to force me to do the same?<

My diet is very close to SatinDoll’s. But, being a conservative that leans close to libertarianism, I will defend to the end your right to eat what you want, to drink alcohol (as long as you stay the heck of public roads) and to smoke legal substances.

That said, sugar is unhealthy in the amounts consumed by the average American and no amount of wishing will change that fact.


106 posted on 04/05/2012 5:59:58 AM PDT by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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