Diabetes Drugs Cost $35 Billion/Year:

[longknife]

Why are we Using Tax Dollars to Buy 400,000 Tons of Sugar?

Christina Sarich, Natural Society, May 5, 2013

The blatant ways in which the government mindlessly spends our tax money when our health is in decline and the economy sputters along on the petro-dollar are often astounding. It should be alarming to know that diabetes drugs are now costing us $35 billion a year while a great deal of money is being spent on diabetes-fueling sugar.

Read more of this utter stupidity @ Prison Planet.com » Diabetes Drugs Cost $35 Billion/Year: Why are we Using Tax Dollars to Buy 400,000 Tons of Sugar?

 

[lynn63]

Because it works for the pharm companies.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

That's what our great America diet gets us. That's what the froot loops are so pissed at our First Lady about. I mean, How DARE she want our children to NOT be diabetic?

When you're done reading this, go read the heart disease thread.

Then, call for pizza delivery or take the kiddies out to McDonald's.

Americans are just plain flat out stoopid.

 

[Politico]

That's why there will never will be a cure.

 

[Mr. H.]

When will the public wise up to the ways of agriculture? We are being fleeced by an industry hell-bent on fattening its pockets at our own expense. And we pay them to do it.

So much animosity directed at the hydrocarbon industries when, ironically, agriculture would not exist if not for crude oil and natural gas.

We are being gamed and conned by an ultimate blow job known as farming.

But... as we all know - God made a farmer.

Good-DAY!

 

[waltky]

Fresh fruit helps prevent diabetes but juice increases risk...

More fresh fruit wards off diabetes; juice boosts risk
Sat, Aug 31, 2013 - Eating more whole fresh fruit, especially blueberries, grapes, apples and pears, is linked to a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, but drinking more fruit juice has the opposite effect, a study said.

British, US and Singaporean researchers pored over data from three big health investigations that took place in the US, spanning a quarter of a century in all. More than 187,000 nurses and other professional caregivers were enrolled. Their health was monitored over the following years, and they regularly answered questionnaires on their eating habits, weight, smoking, physical activity and other pointers to lifestyle. About 6.5 percent of the volunteers developed diabetes during the studies.

People who ate at least two servings each week of certain whole fruits, especially blueberries, grapes and apples, reduced their risk of Type 2 diabetes by as much as 23 percent compared to those who ate less than one serving per month. “Our findings provide novel evidence suggesting certain fruits may be especially beneficial for lower diabetes risk,” said Qi Sun, an assistant professor of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.

On the other hand, those who consumed one or more servings of fruit juice each day saw their risk of the disease increase by as much as 21 percent. Swapping three servings of juice per week for whole fruits resulted in a 7 percent reduction in risk, although there was no such difference with strawberries and cantaloupe melon. The paper, published yesterday by the British Medical Journal (BMJ), says further work is needed to explore this “significant” difference.

It speculates that, even if the nutritional values of whole fruit and fruit juice are similar, the difference lies with the fact that one food is a semi-solid and the other a liquid. “Fluids pass through the stomach to the intestine more rapidly than solids even if nutritional content is similar,” the paper said. “For example, fruit juices lead to more rapid and larger changes in serum [blood] levels of glucose and insulin than whole fruits.”

More fresh fruit wards off diabetes; juice boosts risk - Taipei Times

 

[Camp]

That's why there will never will be a cure.

There is a cure for the epidemic, perhaps not the desease itself, but the cause. Stop putting all that sugar into our food. But perhaps you mean it will never be cured because we will never be able to stop the food producers from using all that sugar or
educate the public not to use all that sugar and sugar laden foods.