Regulate sugar like booze: Scientists

Social engineering food Nazis strike again!

Hitler on high fructose corn syrup.

Another way to try and protect people from themselves. Wonderful.

Sugar is victimless, as long as you don't force people to pay for each other people's healthcare.

Think of the children, apostle!

And here they go after another freedom of choice.

Yeah, that's retarded.

How many sweet foods even still have real sugar in them, anyway? Skin was under the impression that whatever isn't stuffed with High Fructose Corn Syrup uses chemical alternatives to sugar like Splenda and other aspartame based crap. Skin can only think of two varieties of soda that have real sugar made in the U.S. and that's the Pepsi and Mountain Dew "throwback" versions. Maybe these meddling dickweeds should be stigmatizing the not-sugar crap.

Sugar, fats and salt are all very bad for you if you abuse them. They are also what makes food taste good.

I think the only way to really protect people's health is to make it illegal to eat. Once everyone dies of starvation, there won't be any more problem.

Hell, might as well call for a tax on tea and stamps.

Turn things right around to the beginning, so we can get rid of these idiots.

HFCS and sucrose have the same chemical makeup. Neither one are better or worse for you. The popularity of HFCS in the US has nothing to do with health and everything to do with the low price of corn and high tariffs on sugar.

Alternatively, every time a pair of asshats like the ones going after sugar stick their heads up, they get 'em blown off.

Umm when did sciecne become a totalitarian ideology bent on controlling people's lives?

Ask Al Gore.

If people want to fuck themselves up on high sugar diets, then they should be able to. If people don't, and choose more healthy food then all the power to them too.

That's the way it should be. It's important to raise awareness on how bad sugar can be for you, but that's where it should end.

When it was found that it's easier to control the people using so-called scientific facts to back up their lies. It's all about power and money.

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Well, it does take some education to discover. A lot of foods have extra sugar in them that you wouldn't suspect. Often added as an additive. Many pasta sauces for example in the super market add sugar or high fructose corn syrup for no damn reason, except people's preference and addiction to sweet.

I don't know what works for other people. I've heard good things about weight watchers. For me this is what worked. I lost 35 lbs. this year. I didn't eliminate many things, I just ate smaller portions.
I also eliminated as many "fake" foods. So no "sugar free" sodas, cookies, etc. If I'm going to have a cookie, I will have a real cookie, made from real sugar and real butter. If I have milk, yogurt, cheese, I have full fat. No soda (can I get soda from a tree? No? Ok, then I don't eat it.) I drink wine (fruit!) and beer (only the good stuff, no Natty light because again they add preservatives and crap to it)
Lots of water.
And I make sure I walk, take the stairs, and do some sort of high energy activity 3 day a week. ( I don't have a strict routine, cause I get bored easily)
I just remembered that my thinnest years were always in Europe. I never "dieted" there. I just ate more natural foods, ate smaller portions, and walked more.
So sugar isn't toxic. What is toxic is how sugar is processed until it's barely a reasonable facsimilie the actual thing.

Yeah, this is some stupid shit, but...who didn't see it coming that this thread would become an excuse for...

That ain't sugar. I think it's a combination of coke and meth... with maybe a little PCP mixed in for shits and giggles.

They blinded me with SCIENCE!!!

I'm not so sure about this. It seems to me that HFCS is worse for you in the long run, but at the moment I'm not willing to back that up. I do know it's substantially sweeter than sugar is and that it blocks the signals to let your body know you're full, causing you to devour that whole package of whatever's loaded with the HFCS.

The Hansens line of sodas use sugar and not HCFS, but they're in the health dept. of grocery stores.

Sugar is only bad in the sense that too much of anything is bad.

The fact is, they know this won't work to stop people from consuming sugar less, but it is how they can turn sugar into the next cigarette-esque cash cow.

Hey! We can do prohibition again!

Imagine, a sugar mafia!

All those elementary school tooth decay plays I had to sit through as a kid, who knew they'd come true?

Also, some toxic shit goes into the processing of it.

Corn has to be chemically digested down like wood into pulp at a papermill to tease those sugars out.

sandbagger agrees: Jones Sodas.

Mmmm, Jones Sodas.

I'm pretty sure there was an episode of Homeboys in Outer Space about illegal sugar smuggling....

When totalitarian-inclined people got bored with going into the priesthood and started going into biology, chemistry, and other newly respectable areas of authority?

FTFY.

And no, thanks.

Major impositions are accomplished by the accumulation of slight inconveniences.

"Increase choices?" Absolutely Orwellian, man.

You want people to eat healthier foods? Find a way to deliver healthier foods cheaper. Little is accomplished by jacking up the price of the preferred choice.