Bitter? Calif. Researchers Now Want Sugar Controlled Like Alcohol and Tobacco
- Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:08pm by
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Dr. Robert Lustig (photo courtesy: UCSF)
Should sugar be controlled like alcohol and tobacco? That’s what a group of researchers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) seem to think.
Drs. Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt, and Claire Brindis argue that sugar’s potential for “abuse,” coupled with its “toxicity and pervasiveness in the Western diet,” make it a primary culprit in a worldwide health crisis, according to the UCSF website.
“We are in the midst of the biggest public health crisis in the history of the world,” Dr. Lustig said. “And nobody even gets it. Nobody understands how important this is because they don’t consider it ‘public health.‘ They consider it ’personal responsibility.’”
They argue that the health hazards associated with sugar consumption are similar to those of alcohol — which they note is made from distilling sugar.
And although some researchers have already pointed out that worldwide consumption of sugar has tripled during the past 50 years, therefore possibly leading to an “obesity epidemic,” Drs. Lustig, Schmidt, and Brindis believe that obesity is just one possible symptom of sugar’s toxicity, which goes further than simply being high in calories.
Watch Drs. Lustig, Schmidt, and Brindis discuss their research via UCSFPublicAffairs:
“As long as the public thinks that sugar is just ‘empty calories,’ we have no chance in solving this,” Dr. Lustig said, according to the The Daily Mail.
“There are good calories and bad calories, just as there are good fats and bad fats, good amino acids and bad amino acids, good carbohydrates and bad carbohydrates,” he added, “But sugar is toxic beyond its calories.”
They argue that sugar contributes to 35 million deaths each year from illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Therefore, they argue, curbing the consumption of sugar could potentially save millions of dollars each year.
“There is an enormous gap between what we know from science and what we practice in reality,” Dr. Schmidt said, “In order to move the health needle, this issue needs to be recognized as a fundamental concern at the global level.”
Dr. Claire Brindis (photo courtesy: UCSF)
Dr. Brindis said that the public needs to be better informed about the dangers of sugar with a “wide approach” similar to that seen with tobacco and alcohol, the Daily Mail reports.
What kind of “wide approach”?
They suggest levying special sales taxes, controlling access, and “tightening licensing requirements” on vending machines and snack bars that sell high sugar products in schools and workplaces.
Furthermore, among Dr. Lustig’s more “radical proposals,” to quote Christopher Wanjek of LiveScience, is banning the sale of sugary drinks to consumers under age 17.
“We’re not talking prohibition. We‘re not advocating a major imposition of the government into people’s lives,” Dr. Schmidt said.
“We’re talking about gentle ways to make sugar consumption slightly less convenient, thereby moving people away from the concentrated dose. What we want is to actually increase people‘s choices by making foods that aren’t loaded with sugar comparatively easier and cheaper to get,” she said.
Dr. Laura Schmidt (photo courtesy: UCSF)
In a UCSFPublicAffairs YouTube video, Dr. Lustig flirts with the idea of taxing the desire out of consumers and compares it to the government’s approach to cigarettes.
“No one’s really talking about how much tax will it take to reduce consumption,” Ludstig said, “We saw this with cigarettes. We basically had to raise the price of a pack up to $11 in New York City to get people to actually stop smoking. And they finally decided: ‘You know what? The craving just isn’t worth it.”
“So the question is how much taxation would you have to do to a can of soda to get somebody to say ‘You know? I really don’t need to do that’?” Lustig asked.
Dr. Lustig argues that although no one is prepared for a cigarette-style tax increase on soda today, we may see that type of action taken tomorrow.
“There have been a lot of other public health campaigns, which initially seemed to be very radical, but today they seem extremely mainstream,” Dr. Brindis said.
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:22pmDrowning is the sixth leading cause of unintentional injury death.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:02pm*Gasp*. Call the scientists in. They need to tell us it’s time to regulate water usage. Oh and make bathtubs illegal of course.
Report Post »barnsy
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:13pmThe scariest words in the world…” Im with the government,and im here to help”.
Report Post »darkrage000
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:24pmno no no no! We must create special taxes and increase the cost of water thereby making it less appealing to people!
Report Post »Then they can sit back after a long day at work and say ‘”you know what? I didnt need that shower.”
And when they are in the hospital dying from Dehydration, we can tell them,”See, you didnt need that glass of water!”
richard the lion-hearted
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:28pmJust one more insane liberal in a long line of many who‘s voices are ’parroted’ by the lame-stream media, beware when men call evil good and good evil…this is only about control over the citizen, nothing more. Can’t wait for them to come up with the next insane theory to try and legislate, maybe pepper? Unless that’s deemed racist by the same fools…
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:13pmHas anyone here ever read the book, “Sugar Blues” (1976) by William Duffy?
Can anyone here tell me where the saying, “Mad dogs and Englishmen” came from?
Refined sugar is very bad and I wish I had never eaten it as a Child. I stay away from most all products containing refined white sugar. Of course, that will pi$$ off your Dentist!
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:17pmwe should tax politicians and “ professors” a tax per word
that should minimize some of the bs coming from these idiots
Report Post »nosycophant
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:29pmIs that with or without LSD on it?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:51pmCaptain Kirk called it “LDS” when referring to Spock! LMAO { :>)
Report Post »Mtroom
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:05pmLet me see here…“We’re not talking prohibition. We‘re not advocating a major imposition of the government into people’s lives,” Dr. Schmidt said….“So the question is how much taxation would you have to do to a can of soda to get somebody to say ‘You know? I really don’t need to do that’?” Lustig asked.
Report Post »So, not prohibition, not government into my life (where will the taxes go?), and lets put over 200,000 Pepsi/ Coke employees out of work..And hey, where’s the toy in my no longer happy meal?…How could I have known before I even read this, it came out of SF?
maccow
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:12pmA CRISIS leads to taxes, leads to more government control of our lives. Same old story. When our kids grades or energy levels for play begin to erode they won’t lift the tax. It will be just another unintended consequence stemming from their good intentions. Same old story.
Report Post »“We’re talking about gentle ways to make sugar consumption slightly less convenient” SCARY!
“this issue needs to be recognized as a fundamental concern at the global level.” SCARIER!
ITS THE U.S.’ FAULT. Make them pay a global tax. Fair redistribution of the wealth and the
Calories.
“no one is prepared for a cigarette-style tax increase on soda today, we may see that type of action taken tomorrow.” SCARIEST!
“You can take my sugar jar when you pry it from my cold dead, slightly chubby, fingers.”
OHSundevil
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:32pmObama, Newt, and Romney are all in on this one…nothing like another healthcare mandate that they can support.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:33pmOk, this is the bitter END!!! They mess with my sugar and I will go to war with these communist pukes!!
To all of you SAFETY NAZI’s out there:
Your control over my life ENDS at YOUR front door!
Get the hell out of my life FOREVER!
Report Post »Unix
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:35pmMight I add, i have a spoonful with my coffee every day, and without my coffee, you NAZI’s will not exist!
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:54pmNanny laws always start in N.Y. or Ca something wrong with those people maybe they should venture out to the real world away from the population to find there is fresh air outside the cities.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:56pmHmmm….regulating sugar?…..makes sense to me, because nothing beats a good sugar buzz, to get me in the mood to stand up and fight evil….and thanks to years of sugar, I have the secret weapon that will accomplish my goals……pounds and pounds of middle aged inertia……..
Report Post »richard the lion-hearted
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:33pmThere is one reason and one reason only that people are getting fat, laziness!!! Technology has caused much of it and lame parents who let their kids sit and play video games while eating junk food all day after school. The same parents who after work sit on their ‘collective’ asses watching cable, eating junk food till bedtime. It‘s really not that hard to see for all you reactionary idiots who believe anything you hear with an ’offical’ capacity cited with it.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:34pm.
The pleasure police never give up.
That’s why you should never give in.
Mock them, don’t accept them.
Funny how libs claim to be in favor of liberty,
Report Post »and then take all yours away.
nzkiwi
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:57am@The Monk
Mad dogs and Englishmen is one of Noel Coward’s most famous songs. It is comedic as were many of his songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCCqaQ-OPPo&feature=related
This isn’t Noel Coward singing (he is dead at present).
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:58amI feel like I‘m living in Alice’s Wonderland… All of our “public servants” from the top down are strangling us to death with their never-ending rules and regulations. We pay our “public servants” to serve us; NOT to supervise us!
I want this ever-growing and controlling mass of a government and all of its super-long tentacles out of my bathroom, my kitchen, my house, my car, and my personal decisions!
What right do these “Holier than Thou” elected or non-elected “officials” have to dictate what medications I can take, what type of shower heads I can use, what types of food I can eat, how much salt (or sugar) I can digest, how I choose to heat my home, when I can use my fireplace, what type of light bulbs I can use, what types of vehicles I can drive, or whatever I choose to do…
Our God-given rights and civil freedoms are being eroded by a bunch of know-it-all officials/tyrants at all levels and at our expense… Know-it-all “officials” who know nothing at all…
Report Post »huckleberry, 1 ea.
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:21amGhiradeli‘s or See’s commented on this yet? Being as they are just down the street from these knuckleheads…
Report Post »huckleberry, 1 ea.
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:23amActually, if Ghiradeli‘s or See’s wanted to relocate to TN, I would gladly go to work for them!
Report Post »suffolkva
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:23amThese crazy loons really believe this stuff! Can you imagine the world these people would create if they were allowed to?
I keep asking this question about so many issues we read about and suffer through these days.. that is:
How long are we going to put up with the ever increasing of government in our lives with its costs in both money and loss of freedom before we revolt?
We need to essentially wipe the slate clean and close down huge portions of the government. It is as simple of that. We could easily do without at least half the cabinet level departments and their czars and bureaucrats.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:45amWith the creation of the Department of Education, then taken over by Socialist, bit by bit, segment by segment, the United States Socialist Federal Government continues to dictate prices of consumption. Continue electing the likes of Obama & Romney in local and national elections will see more of the same.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:57pmThese commies are like THE BORG “resistance is futile, you will be assimilated”.
If you don’t comply with their demands, they take your money??!! SO much for the Land of the Free.
Of, course, all this regulation is justifiable under ObamaCare.
Report Post »decroded
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:15pmthey’ve replaced sugar with HFCS that is soft killing everyone–it causes diabetes. california is bound to find a way to fall into the ocean.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:36am“We are in the midst of the biggest public health crisis in the history of the world,” Dr. Lustig said. “And nobody even gets it. Nobody understands how important this is because they don’t consider it ‘public health.‘ They consider it ’personal responsibility.’
No we are in the midst of power grabbing and freedom killing false prohets and politicians. We consider the choice LIBERTY, Mr Dumass.
Report Post »islamhater
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:21pmSince Obama took office everything is a crisis…Agenda 21 is alive and well in cali.Us homer simpsons need to be told how to eat. How long do we let this go on for? Read this quick it will be taken off of hear soon i’m sure i offended someone..
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:24pmMaybe I am Confused…..Hasn’t life expectancy increased?
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:26pmThis is hilarious.
Now the United States Corporation (TM) can start a new agency.
The bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Sugar.
It is like a old sesame street game; which one doesn’t belong.
I would pick Firearms, how about you?
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:28pmSugar tax=tea tax
Report Post »ErinLindsey
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:35pmthese nutballs better keep their hands off of my sugar! How are people going to be able to cook their food correctly if they’re not allowed to use salt or sugar? There are chemical reactions that happen when you cook with salt and sugar. Some foods wont cook or taste right without it. Stop trying to legislate how we eat! It‘s no one’s business!
I bet these people are the kind of people who sit in the backseat and keep telling the driver‘s what a horrible job of driving they’re doing.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:43pmBreads and pasta have packed on more pounds on kids and adults than refined sugar. All carbs turn into sugar after your stomach processes it.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:54pmThese people that tell us sugar is killing 35 million people a year, will tomorrow be saying there are too many people on the planet.
Why don’t they just consider it population control, and leave our dietary choices to us?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:56pmThe real crisis is out of control Democrats. This guy should look in the mirror in the morning and he will see the problem looking back at him.
Report Post »Porkchop_sw
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:10pm@ChiefGeorge
Report Post »Brother you NAILED it!! More regulation and more bureaucracy and more tax money to piss away on themselves and their pork projects. Tts time for a Washington DC reset. All of them are corrupt, Flush the toilet when your done please!
Freedomluver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:12pmFor some time now the smokers have been warning about the slippery slope…and it looks like they were right. In fact, this is no slippery slope, as this is a cliff these self righteous moral busybodies are bound and determined to push us all over.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/19/AR2010041905049_pf.html
Officials have not determined the salt limits. In a complicated undertaking, the FDA would analyze the salt in spaghetti sauces, breads and thousands of other products that make up the $600 billion food and beverage market, sources said. Working with food manufacturers, the government would set limits for salt in these categories, designed to gradually ratchet down sodium consumption. The changes would be calibrated so that consumers barely notice the modification.
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“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny.”
Report Post »Thomas Jefferson
MCDAVE
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:13pmIts really about taxes,With Obama its always about taxes,,If they all stop stealing in Washington they could cut us a tax break…When Bill Clinton did this to Tobacco he put thousands of farmers out of work…If they tax sugar products too hard 100,000′s will loose there jobs; i guarantee it
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:24pmCheck this one out….
http://nannystateliberationfront.net/
State Mandates Food Cops in Every Restaurant
Starting Feb. 1, every restaurant in Mass. will be forced to employ at least one “certified food protection manager.” Among the many duties to be assumed by the state-mandated food cops will be teaching…..
“Restaurants are also encouraged to make simpler dishes by avoiding ingredients that hide allergens, like some mollusks and shellfish, barley and rye,” reports Boston’s WCVB-TV. “Currently, federal law does not require ‘minor’ allergens to be clearly listed on food labels.”
Got that? Thanks to the new law, chefs will be “encouraged” to alter their signature recipes that they’ve crafted for the vast majority of patrons who do not have food allergies.
Simply posting warnings on menus about potential food allergens contained in dishes would make too much sense and force those with food allergies to actually pay attention to what they choose to consume. This way, they can not be held responsible for getting sick — it’s the restaurants and chefs who will be blamed and sued for poisoning them. Talk about a ‘Happy Meal’ for trial lawyers!
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:26pm@ErinLindsey
How about this one… LOL
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/nanny-state-looks-ban-salt-nyc
Nanny State Looks to Ban Salt in NY
New York State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz introduced a bill on Friday that would prohibit the use of salt in making foods at restaurants. Says the bill:
“No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on the premises of such restaurant or off of such premises.”
He’s also following the cues of famous Nanny Stater Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who in January compared salt to asbestos:
“If we know there’s asbestos in a school room what do you expect us to do?” Bloomberg shot back at reporters questioning his new initiative. “Say it’s not our business? I don’t think so. The same thing is true with food and smoking and a lot of things.
“Salt and asbestos, clearly both are bad for you,” Bloomberg continued. “Modern medicine thinks you shouldn’t be smoking if you want to live longer. Modern medicine thinks you shouldn’t be eating salt, or sodium.”
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First they came for the smokers….
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:27pmI think it is time to start eliminating these people from society. There is no epidemic of obesity around the world. Americans are fat because we sit too much. We eat too much. If even one congressman or senator were to push this issue I think I will lose it.
Report Post »LUNATICFRINGE
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:32pm“We are in the midst of the biggest public health crisis in the history of the world…” Yeah, kind of makes Black Death look like a common cold….
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:41pmThey are planning hundreds of these new bullsh t taxes..in the future most of your paycheck will be taken in the form of one tax or another…only the politicians will have money…or so they think
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:51pmIdiots tring 2 regulate , lol , lmao .
Report Post »hidden_lion
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:12pmI guess the black plaque was small potatoes compared to people gaining weight.
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:13pmcalories are calories – they are neutral – neither good or bad. Consuming large quantities of calories is the problem. why don’t they just require overweight folks to have their jaws wired shut – oh wait – don’t let me give them any ideas. Calif has really gone off the rails
Report Post »Dahart
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:21pmMan….Someone need to get these people to smoke some more dope maybe they would stop thinking up the shi@t
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:26pmWell no big deal – California was already on my no fly list. No one is going to tell me what to eat or drink.
Report Post »little big man
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:32pmTell the doc to go F- himself. he can pry it from my cold dead hands.
Report Post »Twinspeedr
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:43pmCan the USA divorce a state? We should cut California out of the Country and let them commit suicide like Europe. They will need those of us with our brains still engaged to bail them out soon, what will we do then?
Report Post »Goobergregory
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:22pm@Smokey… yes life expentancy HAS gotten longer. That is quite inconvenient for them so they want to be sure that if we have to live longer at least they get to see us as unhappy and unfulfilled as possible!
Report Post »barnsy
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:29pm@Richard the LH……Oh yea ,pepper can cause you to sneeze thereby spreading disease.It must be regulated and handled only by government certified toxic material experts wearing Hazmat suits.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:05amI remember stories from my grandpa about WWII and how they rationed food. Sugar was hard to come by. Why? You use it to can fruits with, and we can’t have people preparing their own canned goods. Next it will be salt, since that’s used in canning some veggies.
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:30amLets try a experiment ban sugar and salt from the restaurants and eateries on capital hill and see how long it last.
Report Post »SoCaLCapitalist
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:21pmfrom the people that gave us the GLOBAL WARMING FACADE we get the SUGAR TAX!!! These idiots will do anything to line their own pockets.
I read a big government report a few years ago, stating that global warming couldn’t be caused by humans, that the big changes in the environment was caused by gasses under the ocean being released like a big burp in the sea in an amount 100′s of thousands times greater than humans produce.
You don’t see the liberal nit wits flying less on private jets, and we won’t see them eating less sugar.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:42pmThe article states:
“Drs. Robert Lustig, Laura Schmidt, and Claire Brindis, colleagues at UCSF, argue that sugar’s potential for “abuse,” coupled with its “toxicity and pervasiveness in the Western diet,” make it a primary culprit in a worldwide health crisis”
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My retort:
These control freaks have the Audacity to claim something’s potential for abuse ?
They are party to the individuals responsible for continual civil abuse.
People like these characters are the “primary culprit in my health crisis” because they make me physically ill.
Report Post »SpitFU
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:02pmBen And Jerry will finally become Conservatives! Don’t Taze me Bro!
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:42pm@SpitFU
Good one! LOL
Speaking of ice cream…
http://nation.foxnews.com/culture/2009/03/29/nanny-state-bans-ice-cream-socials
Nanny State bans ice cream socials
PEABODY, Mass. (myfoxboston) – Students will have to find a new way to raise money, because a popular ice cream social fundraiser has been canceled at Peabody High School. Students say the fundraiser brought in about $500 a month.
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There really is nothing more annoying than a self righteous moral busybody.
Report Post »BloodSweatandTears
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:48pmDon‘t forget about the earths’ wobble which alters temperatures. Or the eleven year solar flare cycle either. But of course the science has been determined right? Stock up.
Report Post »boston dotty
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:21pmwow black market suger , they’ll be a lot of criminals in their jails , asked what are your in for < smuggling suger LOL
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:28pmThis will be the Second Sugar Act
The first took place in 1764 when the British Parliament placed The American Revenue Act placed a three cent tax on sugar, and increased taxes on indigo wine and coffee. It also imposed a tax on molasses.
Sounds just like Barry and his DEMOCRAT band of thieves
Report Post »gingerbread
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:21pmWhen are these liberals, socialists and communists going to get through their heads that we want the government off our backs. They keep making this or that food or whatever something they want to control. There is only one reason, and one reason alone, why they want to do this. THEY WANT MORE & MORE REASONS TO CONTROLL US. Wake up people, these unelected, self appointed “ELITES”, want complete controll.
Report Post »twotones
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:39pmGOD help us! Sugar this has to be a joke Caliorina cant be this stupid!
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:07pm@TwoTones
They are the epitome of stupidity, well beyond a sane person’s grasp of comprehension.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:20pmI can’t take it any more. I don’t want any help from the government about anything, nor do I want anyone in the government thinking for me…unless they want to send Nancy pelosi to come to wipe my butt…aarrgghhh!!!!!
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:15pm“Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
Report Post »C.S. Lewis
chips1
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:36pmI GASPAR:
Report Post »That was tongue in cheek?
13th Imam
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:20pmSo, if I give up Alcohol, Tobacco, and now Sugar, I will live Forever??
Report Post »Guaranteed?? Wicked Cool
lel2007
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:38pmYou must also put the salt shaker down and step away from the McD counter; Eat lots and lots of apples.
Report Post »Blue Istari
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:27pm@lel2007 – Nope, you can’t eat apples either. They contain sugar! Gotta stick to unpolished brown rice if you want everlasting life.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:20pmIt’s a NUTRIENT for goodness sake. What’s next fat (too many obese kids)? Water (fighting dehydration)? Protein? Carbohydrates (which are just complex sugars)? Maybe you should try cutting corn subsidies. Honestly, if we’re using it for high-fructose corn syrup (hey look sugar) and want to run our cars on it, we’re clearly overproducing. As someone who can’t consume HFCS (trust me it’s not fun) it’s getting very hard to avoid it. Seriously, why do hamburger buns need that stuff?
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:20pmDon’t ya just love these folks? So concerned about our health that they want to raise our taxes or ban something we want.
Now THESE are Big Mama Obama’s kind of people.
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:47pmYeah, MOO-Chelle “Big Ass” Obama, who probably never met a cream puff she didn’t like is just the person to advise the rest of us on how much sugar we should eat. I found the story about her buying $50,000 worth of lingerie hilarious. What is the point of hanging all that expensive lingerie on a big-assed Amazon with the physique of a LINEBACKER?
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:19pmFollow my directions and you too can look like Dr. Claire Brindis and Dr. Laura Schmidt …
Report Post »justangry
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:19pmI‘m thinking of the Simpson’s episode where they banned sugar. Erin Chocosnitch… lmao @ california.
Report Post »Freedomluver
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 5:22pmHere’s proof that the left is filled with nothing but blind self righteous moral busybodies.
http://nannystateliberationfront.net/
City’s Sin Tax Forces Pepsi to Shut Plant and Fire Workers
Nanny state bureaucrats in Baltimore, Md., are responsible for adding another 75 of the struggling city’s workers to the unemployment ranks, courtesy of their war against obesity. Pepsi-Cola announced it will no longer produce soda in ‘Charm City’ as a result of the recently passed two cent per container soda tax.
“In the case of Baltimore, as you may know, there was a beverage tax that was passed here and in this case, it did not help in the decision in terms of keeping the Baltimore plant open,” said Pepsi spokesperson Mark Dollins.
Baltimore grocers also report that the soda tax has had an adverse affect on their bottom lines as shoppers are traveling outside of city limits to purchase sugar-sweetened beverages.
“I’m just shocked that [Pepsi's] pulling out and I asked them if there was anything we could do at the city level with Baltimore Development Corporation and try to offer some kind of incentive and they said it was too far down the line,” said City Council President Jack Young.
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Gee, they just can’t figure out why they left?
Report Post »Akridgerunner
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:19pmI iiI I can’ty type!! I’m laffing too hard !! hahahahaha
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:19pmShould SUGAR be controlled like alcohol and tobacco??? ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO SHOULDNT BE CONTROLLED LIKE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO!!!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:22pmSo true, so true.
Report Post »Slayer
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:22pmBest comment of the year (so far) award!
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:22pmWait, how is alcohol controlled? Outside of DUI and age restrictions I mean. Tobacco I understand. Do you mean liquor licenses?
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:30pm@TZION: I cant speak for where you live, but where I live (Commonwealth of VA) “hard” alcohol is ONLY sold thru the auspices of the State Government by government employees at government distribution centers called ABC stores (VABC-Virginia Dept. of Alcoholic Beverage Control).
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:37pmOkay. Thought I’d ask. Better to know, right? Reminds me of fireworks regulations in NJ. Everyone comes to PA to buy them.
Report Post »lel2007
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:42pmDear TZION, Google ‘Whiskey Rebellion’
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:43pmOZCHAMBERS,
Report Post »The same here in Alabama. The ABC sets the price per bottle then tacks on a 56% state tax. When sold through their stores the regular sales tax is added to the total. There are a few privately owned liquor stores, but they like bars and restaurants have to purchase exclusively through the ABC and there are no bulk discounts. One of the results of the Democrats running everything in this state from post Reconstruction after the Civil War until only recently.
thegodfather
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:18pmThe core of liberalism……They know what’s best for us.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:18pmThe people of Califoenia should Ban anything they can think of. After they banned intelligence and common sence years ago in the state, who care what else they do. Looney Tunes, Da dats All Folks
Report Post »angeleyes63
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:19pmYou got that right Old Dog. It gets worse here everyday. The commies have gerrymandered the districts so it’s almost impossible for any kind of conservative to win and it gave unfettered control to the commie legislature that has destroyed this once great state.
Report Post »JackJM
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:18pmFrom California, another branch of the “Food Nazis” are heard from.
How long before the San Andreas Fault breaks and the land of fruits and nuts drifts into the sea and thereby save us all?
I’ll only miss the wine…sigh
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:17pmA new TAX … who woulda thunk it coming from San Fran ? Off with their heads … them EVIL sugar producers and consumers …
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:16pmMichelle Obama Just had an Obamagasm. If I get a Spoon full of Sugar in My Belly,I Do Not die.If I get a spoon full of water in my lungs I Do Die. BAN WATER!!!!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:16pm.
Dr. Lustig said “We are in the midst of the biggest public health crisis in the history of the world.”
I‘ve been trying to warn ya’ll about PC White Guilt Syndrome…….
Report Post »Teaparty-grammy
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:16pmIt figures this stupidity would originate in the MOONBAT STATE. Is there ANYBODY with a brain in California, since Reagan died?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:16pmWhat a bunch of power hungry freaks! Waiting for that all powerful earthquake to totally take out the land of the loony freaks! Drop it right into the ocean!
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:16pmNext, they will come into your home and inspect your pantry.
Report Post »loggs14
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:25pmIf they want to inspect my pantry they better be wearing a vest….. My house is guarded by shotgun, three days a week, you guess which three….
Report Post »taxpro4u03
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:37pmIf you slide ANY card at the grocery — they already DO. PAY ATTENTION!!!! — It‘s done under the guise of ’target marketing…‘ There are ’person of interest’ type-data bases on everything you DO, unless you ‘pre-empt’ it by exercising your freedoms.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:49pmI thought the TSA inspected your pantries.
Report Post »KingDork
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:15pmGoodie another over zealous douchebag with power wanting to make a name for themselves in cali… times like this I look forward to the next natural disaster here.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:15pmOh Goody, It’s about time they regulate sugar. I have been waiting for this for 30 years. I am still waiting for the regulation of shoe strings and watch bands.
(take tongue out of cheek)
Report Post »boston dotty
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:19pmblack market suger , you’ll make a bundle
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:20pmUnbelievable…..this falls under the “the average American is not smart enough to know how many spoon fulls to put in our coffee. Socialism is for the people not the Social Elite. So I guess Michelle cannot say “Let them eat cake” from Air Force One” anymore….Let them eat Cabbage…..just not the same.
Report Post »Longbow
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:11pmdear Drs. – STFU
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:17pmA-friggin-Men!
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:39pmMy mom’s a dietician and even she would oppose this.
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