UCSF researchers recommend that the government regulate sugar, just as it does alcohol and tobacco
Bookworm on Feb 01 2012 at 3:15 pm | Filed under: Health
Because our government isn’t yet doing enough, or costing enough, or interfering sufficiently in our lives, three researchers at the University of California San Francisco now recommend that the government should regulate sugar, just as it does alcohol and tobacco:
A new commentary published online in the Feb. 1 issue of Nature says sugar is just as “toxic” for people as the other two, so the government should step in to curb its consumption.
The United Nations announced in September that chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes contribute to 35 million deaths worldwide each year, according to the commentary. The U.N. pegged tobacco, alcohol, and diet as big risk factors that contributed to this death rate.
Two of those are regulated by governments, “leaving one of the primary culprits behind this worldwide health crisis unchecked,” the authors, Robert H. Lustig, Laura A. Schmidt and Claire D. Brindis, argued.
I’m struggling here to say something snarky and clever, but I just can’t. You see, I have this sneaking suspicion that, if Obama gets another four years in the White House, we’ll see a Department of Sugar Regulation, complete with punitive taxes on its purchase, minimum age requirements, rationing to ensure that people don’t eat too much and, quite possibly, rules requiring that sugar and sugar products be kept in special locked areas in stores in order to prevent theft and underage use.
Incidentally, does it strike you as coincidental that this study got published two weeks before Valentine’s Day? Yeah, I don’t think it’s a coincidence either. Considering that Communist and Muslim cultures consider Valentine’s Day evil both because of its Christian origin and because of the fact that it triggers an orgy of spending (how capitalist!), it is “holiday non grata” in those totalitarian societies. It seems as if the food police want to see the same thing happen here.
I am envisioning some sort of bumper sticker, though. You know, something along the lines of “Protect Valentine’s Day. Vote Republican in 2012.”
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Just to teach those bastards a lesson they won’t soon forget, I’m going to make an apple gallette for dessert for a dinner at a friend’s house on Saturday. Take THAT, you wretched pokenoses!
“You are too stupid to know what’s good for you,” they said as she finished her sugar laden bowl of Rice Krispies (TM), heated up her coffee and lit a cigarette.
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/2011/12/you-are-too-stupid/
Considering that during this administration, both our personal health records and our children’s’ public school records have become accessible to various state and federal government entities, I wouldn’t be surprised is someone decides to start issuing sugar credits based on our current health and school performance. For own good, of course.
Considering what Liberal policies, values and life examples (BJ Clinton) have done to spread STDS in schools…
The thing is, it is precisely the academic Leftists, media propagandists, and corrupt government goons that need to be regulated by us. Not the other way around.
By allowing government to do things in such an evil and unnatural fashion, people are furthering evil and making government no longer a necessary evil, but just an unnecessary one.
My answer to totalitarian governments that implement things like “One child policies” (except for the rich that can afford to pay the exemptions) is to kill them all and let sugar sort it out.
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