"Yo dog, I need mo' money. That was a full case of Sprite."
Posted on 02/20/2015 7:10:52 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
Americans should pay taxes on sugary sodas and snacks as a way to cut down on sweets, though they no longer need to worry about cholesterol, according to scientists helping to revamp dietary guidelines as U.S. obesity levels surge.
The recommendations Thursday from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee also call for Americans to reduce meat consumption and to take sustainability into account when dining.
The panel released its report as the Obama administration seeks ways to fight obesity, which now affects more than one-third of American adults and 17 percent of children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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The way i began for the tobacco interest. Next, sued for causing diabetes . . .
"Yo dog, I need mo' money. That was a full case of Sprite."
Like the “WAR” on drugs, good healthcare, and ISIS,
the EXEMPT Congress and the Tyrant will be EXEMPT.
I hardly buy and eat any sugar or sugar-based foods, but that doesn’t make this gestapo-like tactic any less noxious.
For those Freepers who argue for health insurance that isn’t insurance (e.g., must cover pre-existing conditions), this is really the inevitable end: when one gives up personal responsibility, one inevitably gives up personal authority, too.
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Michelle Obama has new warning on obesity
Dec 13 2010
“[M]ilitary leaders … tell us that when more than one in four young people are unqualified for military service because of their weight,” the first lady says in prepared remarks, “childhood obesity isn’t just a public health threat, it’s not just an economic threat, it’s a national security threat as well."
Eight of the 14 members of this board are women....I stopped listening to them right then.
These so-called experts can rot in hell.
Let’s try that link again => http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2641847/posts
Yet, a progressive tax system has no effect on economic activity.
Which is it, "progressives?"
Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter once about us being taxed on our meat and drink. Nothing new under the Sun.
Letter to Samuel Kercheval:
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.
Gonna be a black market for “loosies” (single soda cans).
About a high school teacher diagnosed with terminal cancer who decides to open up a crystal sugar lab.
LOL
Any dist6raction will do so long as it keeps voter eyes off of the real aborting of the Republic.
A ...tax on a tax...
WHO... providing the funding for excessive behavioral disorders such as overgrazing. Next order of biznuss to the grubermint will be to increase entitlement money to hel..pout the people peipple. Sick and ilklogi...chael
Turns out the 2,400 mg of salt maximum per day has also been proven incorrect. Research has shown that increased risk of death is 30% higher at that level of salt consumption compared to between 3,000 mg and 6,000 mg per day.
So “scientists” are just as wrong about this as they are about the long discredited cholesterol hypothesis.
Remember when it was recommended that people should eat synthetic partially hydrogenated vegetable oil instead of saturated fat? People die when they eat NO saturated fat, and oh, turns out synthetic partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is one of the primary causes of cardiovascular disease after all.
Still at least the government is finally admitting this is all political anyway and has little to do with healthy nutrition now that they are overtly recommending political consideration be given a place at the table a la their recommendations regarding so-called “sustainability”, which of course is NOT an actual nutritional criteria. Hey folks, let’s eat up that good ol’ sustainable dirt, tree bark, leaves, and grass. It might not be all that good for you, but by george, it’s “sustainable”!
I mean, does ANY rational being believe ANYTHING our government says anymore? Remember everyone, you’ll save $2,500.00 per year per person, AND you can keep your doctor (if you LIKE your doctor), AND you can keep your insurance (if you LIKE your insurance)!
If a person is consciously will to accept being heavier and less healthy in exchange for whatever pleasure they get from sugar then they have the right to do so. Who is the government to say that is an unreasonable trade off? To hold otherwise is to say essentially that we are nothing but cattle who exist for the benefit of the collective.
These fascists have no idea why decent people admire Governor Palin's stand for liberty.
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