Sugar is sweet - and also a killer

[barryqwalsh]

Doctors and public health experts warn that while rotting teeth might be the most obvious side effect of high sugar diets on kids, the effect on brain function, learning ability and obesity risk are just as concerning.

“The association between high sugar intake and specific chronic conditions, like ADHD or autism, is not very clear. What is clear is its impact on the cognitive function and the capacity to learn. The people having high sugar levels are in the age groups where peak learning occurs."


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[Likkmee]

It's the food of the idiot. A buncha sugar. A WHOLE buncha TV and toss in some video games and you can create a society of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
USA. Unbelievably Stupid Assholes.

 

[Muhammed]

 

[waltky]

Sugar is the real culprit...

Fat wrongly accused; it’s sugar that’s bad for you
Sat, Sep 24, 2016 - Chiang Sheng is an attending physician in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Mackay Memorial Hospital.

Over the past half-century, Taiwan’s eating and drinking habits have evolved. In the past, cooking oil was made from animal fats and many have childhood memories of fried lard and crisp, deep-fried onion rings. Granulated sugar made by Taiwan Sugar Corp is made into syrup and added to cold drinks and sweet soups. In the past, the average Taiwanese was not very heavy, despite a cultural preference for fat children, because it implies good fortune and wealth. A love of fatness is deep and it does not exist only in Han Chinese societies, but also among some Austronesian cultures. Who would have thought that today, half a century later, obesity and heart disease would become a Taiwanese epidemic?

These eating and drinking habits are part of a global culture and are influenced by the US in particular. Taiwanese today eat little animal fat and avoid cholesterol-rich foods, but instead eat a lot of carbohydrates, and almost every dish contains sugar and is accompanied by sweet drinks and desserts. These changes are closely related to the US’ Sugar Association. In 1965, the association’s predecessor paid Harvard scientists to write a skewed study making a connection between heart disease and saturated fats, while playing down the relationship between sugar and heart disease. The report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In the early 20th century, few people died from heart disease, but by the middle of the century it had become very common. In 1955, then-US president Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack and donations to the American Heart Association increased by 40 percent. After recovering, Eisenhower became a board member and honorary chairman of the association. By the early 1960s, doctors and nutritionists successfully showed a connection between heart disease, saturated fats and cholesterol. They made it onto the cover of Time magazine and dominated the US National Institutes of Health’s food and beverage guide. Animal fats and cholesterol had become the main culprits behind heart disease.

Last week, JAMA Internal Medicine published an article claiming that researchers had cooperated with the sugar industry to distort the facts, citing historical internal sugar industry documents. The article said that, based on today’s research standards, the study was unethical and involved conflicts of interest. Cholesterol and saturated fats have been wrongly accused for 50 years. Today, the main suspect behind obesity and heart disease is sugar. It is addictive and akin to a legalized drug. It has been tolerated for half a century in a historical political, scientific, social and medical context. In the 1970s, the US began to produce corn in large quantities and the excess has been used for animal feed, cheap vegetable oil and promoting the prosperity of fast food chains. The cheap concentrated fructose (corn syrup) refined from corn has been hidden in Taiwanese food and beverages ever since.

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[anotherlife]

Doctors and public health experts warn that while rotting teeth might be the most obvious side effect of high sugar diets on kids, the effect on brain function, learning ability and obesity risk are just as concerning.

“The association between high sugar intake and specific chronic conditions, like ADHD or autism, is not very clear. What is clear is its impact on the cognitive function and the capacity to learn. The people having high sugar levels are in the age groups where peak learning occurs."


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Americans stick to their right to eat whatever they want. No doctor can tell them how much sugar will make them obese and stupid. To prove their point, Americans will punish any such Doctor by eating twice as much sugar and getting twice as obese and stupid.

 

[barryqwalsh]

A 20 per cent tax on sugar-sweetened beverages could save more than 1600 lives and raise at least $400 million a year for health initiatives, new Australian research shows.

The study, co-writtenby the Obesity Policy Coalition and the University of Queensland's School of Public Health, is the first of its kind to model Australian population data to assess the impact of a sugary drinks tax.

Paying extra on your soft drink could save lives

 

[barryqwalsh]

UK Sugar Tax

Sugar tax: How will it work?


It will be imposed on companies according to the volume of the sugar-sweetened drinks they produce or import.

There will be two bands - one for total sugar content above 5g per 100 millilitres and a second, higher band for the most sugary drinks with more than 8g per 100 millilitres. Analysis by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility suggests they will be levied at 18p and 24p per litre.

Examples of drinks which would currently fall under the higher rate of the sugar tax include full-strength Coca-Cola and Pepsi, Lucozade Energy and Irn-Bru, the Treasury said. The lower rate would catch drinks such as Dr Pepper, Fanta, Sprite, Schweppes Indian tonic water and alcohol-free shandy.

Sugar tax: How will it work? - BBC News

 

[barryqwalsh]

One would need quite a lot of sugar to listen to that rubbish.

 

[MarathonMike]

My question is why does the food industry pour so much sugar in everything? And then charge more for low sugar variants of the same product?

 

[Muhammed]

My question is why does the food industry pour so much sugar in everything? And then charge more for low sugar variants of the same product?

Because they know stupid democrats will buy it with their food stamps.

 

[DGS49]

From the information provided, he conclusions about cognitive function and behavioral issues appears to be nothing more than idle speculation.

Kids with "too much" sugar in their diet are demonstrably being raised by adults who are not doing their job very well, and that could just as easily explain poor academic performance (both genetically and behaviorally) and disruptive behavior.

As for taxing or punishing producers of high-sugar foods and drinks, that's not really the role of Government.

 

[Muhammed]

Sugar is the real culprit...

Fat wrongly accused; it’s sugar that’s bad for you
Sat, Sep 24, 2016 - Chiang Sheng is an attending physician in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Mackay Memorial Hospital.

Over the past half-century, Taiwan’s eating and drinking habits have evolved. In the past, cooking oil was made from animal fats and many have childhood memories of fried lard and crisp, deep-fried onion rings. Granulated sugar made by Taiwan Sugar Corp is made into syrup and added to cold drinks and sweet soups. In the past, the average Taiwanese was not very heavy, despite a cultural preference for fat children, because it implies good fortune and wealth. A love of fatness is deep and it does not exist only in Han Chinese societies, but also among some Austronesian cultures. Who would have thought that today, half a century later, obesity and heart disease would become a Taiwanese epidemic?

These eating and drinking habits are part of a global culture and are influenced by the US in particular. Taiwanese today eat little animal fat and avoid cholesterol-rich foods, but instead eat a lot of carbohydrates, and almost every dish contains sugar and is accompanied by sweet drinks and desserts. These changes are closely related to the US’ Sugar Association. In 1965, the association’s predecessor paid Harvard scientists to write a skewed study making a connection between heart disease and saturated fats, while playing down the relationship between sugar and heart disease. The report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In the early 20th century, few people died from heart disease, but by the middle of the century it had become very common. In 1955, then-US president Dwight Eisenhower had a heart attack and donations to the American Heart Association increased by 40 percent. After recovering, Eisenhower became a board member and honorary chairman of the association. By the early 1960s, doctors and nutritionists successfully showed a connection between heart disease, saturated fats and cholesterol. They made it onto the cover of Time magazine and dominated the US National Institutes of Health’s food and beverage guide. Animal fats and cholesterol had become the main culprits behind heart disease.

Last week, JAMA Internal Medicine published an article claiming that researchers had cooperated with the sugar industry to distort the facts, citing historical internal sugar industry documents. The article said that, based on today’s research standards, the study was unethical and involved conflicts of interest. Cholesterol and saturated fats have been wrongly accused for 50 years. Today, the main suspect behind obesity and heart disease is sugar. It is addictive and akin to a legalized drug. It has been tolerated for half a century in a historical political, scientific, social and medical context. In the 1970s, the US began to produce corn in large quantities and the excess has been used for animal feed, cheap vegetable oil and promoting the prosperity of fast food chains. The cheap concentrated fructose (corn syrup) refined from corn has been hidden in Taiwanese food and beverages ever since.

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Actually it was a bogus study by Ancil Keyes. He cherry picked the data and suddenly his bogus theory was widely accepted as gospel. Ancil Keyes was a mega-scoundrel and the Michael Mann of his day.