A bill, S.2165 in Arizona to ban purchase of these drinks using SNAP fund programs has come out of committee. Expect a fight from those who want to deny the harms.
It's outrageous that sugar is used interchangeably with high fructose corn syrup that is the default sweetener in everything but top buck organic.
Worse there is zero mention of GMO corn which is over 90% of American corn since the late 1990s and while the law declares biotech mutants substantial equivalents they are not but studies never differentiate. Talking about food or tests omitting genetically engineered elements as huge problem is missing the biggest change in or diets & not honestly seeking to identify causes. Small bits of honesty about toxic sh*t filled diets is inexcusable & unhelpful.
It's an intrusion! People need education to understand the dangers of sugar. They DON'T need government intervention. Especially since corporate chemicals in food far exceed the dangers of sugar! Hey, government get out of my house! When I want you, I'll ask. When I need you, I'll call!
Well, I agree that these are useless, non-nutrative calories and should be a smaller part of the diet. Chris Knobbe cites 500 kcal/day average. On the other hand, Ray Peat quoted a study, which I looked up where 90 grams of honey per day reduced insulin resistance.
I was a child in the 1970’s Alabama. We kept sweet tea in the refrigerator and everyone was the appropriate weight. Few people were overweight back then. (We only had one car.) Sugar causes cavities, and that brings longer term health risks that largely go unrecognized by medicine.
Oh, I wanted to make one more point for other readers. Despite calling certain foods, “super-foods”, when you type them into a nutrient calculator, (Cronometer) there are very small amounts in each food. In order to be compliant with the RDA’s, while staying in energy balance, you really have to pay attention, and you really cannot waste your energy balance eating 4-500 non-nutrative calories/day.
But that’s really all you need to say. There no need to pull in studies that show an association, especially, since those studies do NOT control for unsaturated fats often called vegetable oils. In 1914, the US agriculture department advised that butter and sugar should be part of the diet. We didn’t have many health conditions then. (Keep in mind I have a document from 1906 that says after SmallPox Jabs, heart disease and cancer doubled (or more) in that physician’s office.-So….that doesn’t get controlled for either.)
It should only fund necessities, period. I don't believe in banning anything, but if the taxpayers/gov are giving you money so you can feed your family, it should only be the basic needs. Milk, eggs, fruit, veg, meat, etc. They can buy whatever junk they want on their own dime....
I agree we should not pay for non-nutrative calories, but we shouldn't use propaganda to do it. Also, glucose is needed to stimulate the pancreas to differentiate alpha cells to insulin producing beta cells. Rice and root vegetables are good sources.
"The first sentence on p.104, which, in the previous online version of the article, read “In Experiment 2 (long-term study, 6–7 months), HFCS caused an increase in body weight greater than that of sucrose in both male and female rats.” is corrected here in the final online version to read “In Experiment 2 (long-term study, 6–7 months), HFCS caused obesity greater than that of chow in both male and female rats”. [The comparison of HFCS and sucrose is in Experiment 1.]"
Excellent and long-overdue news. This needs to become nationwide policy.
🎯100% … add seed oils too. Both are an addiction .
This is an excellent summary of one of the most important public health problems of this generation.
It's outrageous that sugar is used interchangeably with high fructose corn syrup that is the default sweetener in everything but top buck organic.
Worse there is zero mention of GMO corn which is over 90% of American corn since the late 1990s and while the law declares biotech mutants substantial equivalents they are not but studies never differentiate. Talking about food or tests omitting genetically engineered elements as huge problem is missing the biggest change in or diets & not honestly seeking to identify causes. Small bits of honesty about toxic sh*t filled diets is inexcusable & unhelpful.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220623213618/https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered-crops-in-the-us/recent-trends-in-ge-adoption/
It's an intrusion! People need education to understand the dangers of sugar. They DON'T need government intervention. Especially since corporate chemicals in food far exceed the dangers of sugar! Hey, government get out of my house! When I want you, I'll ask. When I need you, I'll call!
Seems like you didn't absorb what the article was conveying.
Government is all over her house if she acknowledges the fact that SNAP money is doled out by that sanme government.
😉 G W
Thank you for the annotated citations.
It's what Dr. Jack does. And extremely well. Check out his courses at https://ipak-edu.org/
GOOD FOOD AND VITAMINS FOR IMMUNITY
Vinay Kumar Pandey
A Systematic Review on Immunity Functionalities and Nutritional Food Recommendations to Develop Immunity Against Viral Infection
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772502223000306
Dentistry sends along its gratitude. Fluoridating the snot out of its patients didn't work perfectly but this AZ move might.
Well, I agree that these are useless, non-nutrative calories and should be a smaller part of the diet. Chris Knobbe cites 500 kcal/day average. On the other hand, Ray Peat quoted a study, which I looked up where 90 grams of honey per day reduced insulin resistance.
I was a child in the 1970’s Alabama. We kept sweet tea in the refrigerator and everyone was the appropriate weight. Few people were overweight back then. (We only had one car.) Sugar causes cavities, and that brings longer term health risks that largely go unrecognized by medicine.
Oh, I wanted to make one more point for other readers. Despite calling certain foods, “super-foods”, when you type them into a nutrient calculator, (Cronometer) there are very small amounts in each food. In order to be compliant with the RDA’s, while staying in energy balance, you really have to pay attention, and you really cannot waste your energy balance eating 4-500 non-nutrative calories/day.
But that’s really all you need to say. There no need to pull in studies that show an association, especially, since those studies do NOT control for unsaturated fats often called vegetable oils. In 1914, the US agriculture department advised that butter and sugar should be part of the diet. We didn’t have many health conditions then. (Keep in mind I have a document from 1906 that says after SmallPox Jabs, heart disease and cancer doubled (or more) in that physician’s office.-So….that doesn’t get controlled for either.)
Here’s a video by Chris Knobbe. I think he does a pretty good job explaining the controversy in obesity, in less than one hour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCyxBCTERXg
It should only fund necessities, period. I don't believe in banning anything, but if the taxpayers/gov are giving you money so you can feed your family, it should only be the basic needs. Milk, eggs, fruit, veg, meat, etc. They can buy whatever junk they want on their own dime....
This sheds new light on those who have drunk the cool aid so to say.
I agree we should not pay for non-nutrative calories, but we shouldn't use propaganda to do it. Also, glucose is needed to stimulate the pancreas to differentiate alpha cells to insulin producing beta cells. Rice and root vegetables are good sources.
The first reference has an Erratum
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3522469/
"The first sentence on p.104, which, in the previous online version of the article, read “In Experiment 2 (long-term study, 6–7 months), HFCS caused an increase in body weight greater than that of sucrose in both male and female rats.” is corrected here in the final online version to read “In Experiment 2 (long-term study, 6–7 months), HFCS caused obesity greater than that of chow in both male and female rats”. [The comparison of HFCS and sucrose is in Experiment 1.]"