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This Is America's Sugar Addiction - An Infographic
Want to solve the unresolvable issue of America's $100 trillion in unfunded welfare liabilities? Start with this: America's sugar addiction, because in 1822 America, the average person consumed 45 grams of refined sugar, or the amount found in one 12-ounce soda can, every 5 days; fast forward to 2012 and in the same period the average American now consumer a whopping 765 grams of sugar - the equivalent of 17 (non-diet) soda cans; also the equivalent of 130 pounds of refined sugar every year! More than anything, this country's fascination with the sugar high (as well as all other various forms of cheap fast food gratification) coupled with an increasingly sedentary "behind a computer" lifestyle is the leading contributor to obesity, chronic healthcare conditions, and numerous other known and unknown sources of emergency healthcare funds. As always: if one wants change, that change always has to start in the mirror.
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Guess you haven't been keeping up on the news.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/nyregion/at-hearing-on-soda-ban-strong...
Don't be so sure Lizzy, they're after grape juice too.
WASHINGTON—The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) threatened Welch Foods, Inc., with a lawsuit unless it stops making heart-health claims on its juices, spreads, fruit juice cocktails and fruit snacks.
http://www.foodproductdesign.com/news/2012/08/cspi-threatens-welch-s-with-lawsuit.aspx
Fucking busy bodies...they're one step away from being taxpayer subsidized,
yes, refined, pasteurized, filtered fruit juices are also a hoax.
Is it made from concentrate? There's a big difference between HFCS and natural fruit sugars.
Pure apple juice from concentrate but no added HFCS.
Even "worse" than refined sugar is the poison "aspartame" which is intentially placed into thousands of food products to poison us.
Tuco
Do they put aspartame in vaccines so once they poison us we won't get fat?
That's a very interesting question. Are autistic kids (mostly boys) morbidly obese? By the way, aspertame turns into formaldehyde (to pickle dead bodies) at room temperature, i.e., inside the human body. Nice of Mr. Donald Rumsfeld and Mr. Ronald Reagan's first act as president, no?
Actually, formaldehyde is a separate ingredient in vaccines. Some of the 26-28 other ingredients include MSG, mercury and aluminum. Yes, Donny and Ronny are true patriots.
I gave up on aspartame for personal consumption a long time ago. I do, however, mix some of it with water and leave in shallow bowls as ant bait when they move inside during certain times of the year. They come, they taste, they die. Some of them apparently don't die and take minute amounts back to the nest, because within a week the ants stop coming. I was amazed the first time I tried it and it worked.
Curious, have you tried that trick with the chemical splenda?
I want one on "This is a america's smartphone addiction-An infographic" then we can just have a picture of the mold, fungs that attatches itsself to the Ant's head rendering the ant braindead and useless. It would take just on pic http://earthsky.org/earth/fungus-turns-tropical-carpenter-ants-into-the-... just take this pic. insert human and iphone. Bingo!!
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/sc019
Sugar is just another central planned government subsidy program ran by wealthy. May not be as pimp as big oil or the defense industry. Just as blatant though. Brush your teeth muppets.
stopped drinking soda and lost 10 pounds in a month !!!......will never go back to that crack !
If I lost ten pounds I'd be see through. I drink a couple of liters of Mountain Dew on a daily basis and have for years. Of course I used to drink a twelve or eighteen pack of Budweiser a day, chain-smoke, and chew tobacco so maybe I'm not in too bad of shape there..............lol
Is crack okay? I'm quite sure Moochelle was a crack whore in another life
Not just sugar, a new study says eating egg yolk is as bad for your arteries as smoking, the egg producers will love this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/08/study-eggs-are-nearly-as-bad-for-your-arteries-as-cigarettes/261091/
The cholesterol in delicious egg yolks accelerates atherosclerosis (the build-up of plaque in our arteries) almost as much as smoking.
But there is good nes too; Vaccine for Heart Disease? New Discovery Points to Possibility http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120814100256.htm
What about barbecue? The government says that barbecue smoke is as bad as cigarettes.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cooked-meats
have u ever seen the difference between a corporate & a farm raised egg? one is an anemic yellow & the other bright yellow/orange. Couldn't be the arsenic they feed the chickens. Farmers eat them every day & live long productive lives.
Bloomberg is going to love this article
I think he wrote it. See below.
What does Mayor Penisbreath eat anyways?
You know what has a higher glucose spike to it, calorie per calorie, than cane sugar?
Wheat. Whole grain or white bread it matters not.
The starch in wheat splits very quickly and easily in our guts into glucose, and hammers the whole body with a sugar emergency.
Cane sugar is bad in a different way. It is half fructose, once split for absorbtion, and fructose gets repackaged as fatty acids onto, wait for...freshly made LDL! The bad cholesterol.
While that fructose runs around it undergoes glycation reactions with proteins that produce monster molecules the body cannot do much with...Advanced Glycation End Products. The rate this occurs with fructose is much higher than that with glucose, which also produces AGE's. These accumulate in the body, causing havoc.
Now, combine the aboce two effects with that of the RAFT of omega-6 fatty acids americans consume when eating the edible oils industry's new products, and you get a hell of a lot of inflammation too, precursor to just about every chronic, expensive disease.
Something smells here. The domain onlinenursingprograms.com is registered through Moniker Privacy Services to hide the real ownership of the domain. It's what they do.
More good stuff here: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_is_Moniker_Privacy_Services
There is no meaningful info on who is running the site. So, It appears that this is an astroturf shill site for distributing health nazi agitprop. My guess it's being bankrolled by Nanny Mike Bloomberg
Winrar!
Astroturf by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Apparently, they don't like flush toilets either: http://cyborglandscapes.blogspot.com/2012/05/created-by-onlinenursingpro... Couldn't help to give a little shout out to Bill Gates on this one.
And this looks like it's done by the same graphic artist: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/watersanitationhygiene/pages/reinventing-...
Seems Bill is feeling a little guilty about those billions of ill-gotten gains he's made over the years.
Glycemic Index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index
The glycemic index, glycaemic index, or GI is a measure of glucose (blood sugar) level increase from carbohydrate consumption. Foods raise glucose to varying levels. It estimates how much each gram of available carbohydrate (total carbohydrate minus fiber) in a food raises a person's blood glucose level following consumption of the food, relative to consumption of pure glucose.[1] Glucose has a glycemic index of 100, by definition, and other foods have a lower glycemic index.
Glycemic index is defined for each type of food, independent of the amount of food consumed. Glycemic load accounts for the amount of food consumed and is calculated in terms of glycemic index.
Any one else notice that most ZH articles aren't getting more that 100 posts a day?
Maybe another article about fatties can help.
I think ZH screwing up how you can track back on your posts to check if people responded helped to kill the amount of postings.. in the old days we could get email links when people responded to your comments and keep a conversation going.. now it is mostly one liners since people have no intention of weeding back to check on every post everyday
PS - i'll probably forget to check back on this post for any replies just like you won't see mine to yours...
Indians, malays, and the middle east are way worse. Higher rates of diabetes, etc. Govt' in Malaysia had to put a subsidy on sugar.
That's what you get when its all allah, allah, shiva, no drinking, no pork, no sex and a hairy wife....... somethings gotta give.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-07/india-s-deadly-diabetes-scourge...
http://labsoftnews.typepad.com/lab_soft_news/2008/03/diabetes-epidem.html
Best gift to give is really good chocolate or other sweets when doing business, its cheap (than scotch) and they all love it. Like gambling to the chinese.
...let me get this straight, the government goons run drugs and guns, pardon themselves, hold the Constitution in contempt, arrest people the drugs go to, then they put people in their slush fund prisons, give amnesty to criminals that lower the wages, export jobs, use algos backed by nothing, customer accounts turn to vapor and Corzine and Dimon remain free ...and they put high fructose in everything and socialize Health Care too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wHPPP9ZIz4
http://www.onlinenursingprograms.com/blog/
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First you get the chuugar, then you get the power, then you get the weemen.
I don't consume sugars. I was a fatass and didn't have an idea about how the entire civilized society lifestyle was poison. Wised up on nutrition and I don't even drink diet sodas anymore. Starting to see veinage on my abs, versus having flab rolls a few years ago, so I guess I am doing something right.
It's impossible to be a fatass if you wise up on nutrition.
Exactly.
Boy if I had a dime for every time a fat person blamed it on something outside their control, and then proceeded to slam down a nice warm bag of McDonald's and a large Dr. Pepper...completely oblivious to how different normal sized peoples' eating habits are.
Obesity is genetic in the sense that it comes from your parents in the form of healthy eating habits, but it isn't genetic in the sense that you can't do anything about it.
I cut out two things and dropped 10 pounds of fat: added sugar and fried foods.
Fast animals, slow children:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1PaL-S86OY
the brain runs on sugar.. they love to tell everyone not to have sugar so you turn into zombies
nothing wrong with sugar, just exercise and eat a balanced diet
The body converts proteins to glucose for necessary body functions, provided that you have an adequate intake of protein in your diet.
you don't need sugar. Unless you're some athlete, or doing extremely demanding physical work, carbohydrates aren't needed besides on refeeds.
It also converts fat to glucose. Once you run through the stored glucose in your liver and muscles, your liver kicks in to convert either the fat or protein to keep your blood glucose level stable. You don't need a constant stream of sugar, starch or carbs in your diet.
This! gary taube talks about it in his book. "Why we get fat"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4
Humans for thousands of years lived on 85% fat/protein from animals, 10% veggies, 5% sugary fruit (and the fruit wasnt even that sugary) and because of a couple weak studies in the 60s everyone things fat is what is killing us.. it isn't its the sugar and then high carb counts that spike our insulin levels.
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this but it seems to me that western governments (and now the emerging markets) need anything that makes people die prematurely. When smoking was finally demonised in the west the tabacco industry moved east and sold their "social" value to the authorities as a solution to the pension problem.
Its the same with diabetes and obeseity - its one obvious part of the solution to the future burden being placed on government coffers through better health and longer living. I'm not sure its going to be taken seriously by the highest people in government. I'm pretty sure the logic goes - sugar consumption = good for vital industry and kills people before their time. The healthcare costs are far outweighed by the savings in pension money. If you''re smart you won't quibble because its going to be a tough world when everyone lives too long. Tell your family and friends and just feel sorry for the rest. Its a tough world and we no longer have hard labour and toxic work conditions to kill us off before the pension funds become due, if its your own stupid fault then that makes this sort of "darwinism" ok?
My end game with this thinking is that hard drugs will eventually become legalised. Don't like the cards life dealt you, no worries, have some heroine on the health service, be our guest and please go before you really become a burden!
To lose one personal fortune might be considered bad luck; to lose two looks distinctly careless. That's what happened to John Robbins, the heir to one of the biggest ice-cream empires, who walked away from a vast inheritance at the age of 21, eventually made millions of dollars as a best-selling author, but then had almost everything he owned stolen by Bernie Madoff. And you know what? It made him a better person.
John Robbins was born into extraordinary wealth and privilege in southern California. His father was Irvine Robbins, his uncle was Burt Baskin. The brothers-in-law lent their names to an ice-cream venture, which grew from a small store in Burbank into a billion-dollar global franchise, famed for its 31 varieties.
John was his father's only son, and from an early age, he was groomed to follow in the paternal footsteps. When he was six, he worked as a cleaner in the Baskin Robbins offices. As a teenager, he spent every summer holiday in its stores and factories. By the time he went to the University of California, Berkeley, in the mid-1960s, he was only a few years away from taking over the entire business.
And then his uncle Burt died. "He had a heart attack, at a relatively young age, in his fifties. He was a large man, who ate a huge amount of ice cream, and I believe that killed him," Robbins said in an interview with The Independent this week. "It convinced me that I didn't want to spend my life selling a product that was seriously harming people's health. So I told Dad that I wanted out."
John Robbins disappeared to a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. He and his wife built a one-room log cabin, and spent the next 15 years surviving on vegetables they grew and the meagre monthly income they could earn as yoga instructors. Robbins went years without speaking to his family.
In 1984, he returned to California so his 10-year-old son Ocean could go to school. It was then that he decided to write a book explaining what he'd learnt while living "off-grid". The resulting Diet for a New America was one of the first books to explain the pitfalls of a Western diet that had become dependent on meat, dairy and factory farming.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-icecream-heir-who-saw-...
Is it just me, or are there a lot of phallic symbols in this virtual pamphlet?
I'd like to see the price of sugar, wheat and water plotted over that same period.
No wonder Americans can't think straight. Look who they vote for.
I will say profoundly that :
You aren't what you don't eat.
It's a corollary to the similar sounding saying.
The carts at Target and WalMart are often used by the obese people so they can cruise the isles for potato chips and other snacks.
Also have to have those pancakes with the maple and butter flavored corn syrup.
Maybe that's the plan, keep increasing the peoples width and weight until they collapse and die. No need to worry about Social Security.
Bulk Splenda (sucralose) can be purchased for the equivalent of 1.5 cents per packet if you are willing to purchase twelve pounds for around $85.
Then cut out the saturated fat, sodium, cholesterol, caffeine and alcohol and stay on an hour-day-day exercise regime for a year or so.
Then life will be sweet, even when the market is going against you.
I don't think that sugar is the cause of the obesity epidemic.
I suspect the growth hormones that are used to raise red meat and the arsenic that is added to chicken feed.
Nevertheless you still need to be careful about sugar, because, of GMO corn and GMO sugar beets. The principel problem, there, is the insecticides and herbicides that are oversprayed on GMO crops, such as the neurotoxin, Roundup.
"I don't think that sugar is the cause of the obesity epidemic."
It is. It activate inflamatory mechanisms and therefore feeds almost all chronic diseases.
No woman went to bed weighing 115 lbs and woke up the next day at 200 lbs. No man went to bed weighing 175 lbs and woke up the next morning at 300 lbs. They ignored the changes to their own bodies or simply did not care.
When the slacks start getting a little tight, cut back on the food and spend a little more time exercising. It's not terribly complicated. Fat people did it to themselves. If that is their choice, that's fine so long as they pay their own way. In a world of limited resources---whether that means time or money---I'll work to cure the child with cancer and let the obese diabetic go to where their own actions carried them.
The best example of american gluttony is a 7-10 day cruise on Carnival, 5000 people whom 90% are busy shoveling it in 24/7.
I've never seen a larger collection of truly obese people in my life, I saw people that sat thru both breakfast and lunch without moving except to refill their plates. Hearing these people shuffle and weeze as the breathed thru the chocolate buffet was enough for me, I knew right there and then we were completely effed as a nation and it was only a matter of time until we were led to the slaughter, that was 2005.
What I find most disturbing are that people like me and my girlfriend only drink soda maybe once every few months for a total of 1 gallon per year (max). So either there's 2 people out there pacing 106 gallons a year to make up for us, or there is one monster guzzling damn close to a gallon a day.
Great talk given at UCSF "Sugar the Bitter truth". It's not even just the calories but how our bodies digest it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM&feature=youtube_gdata_player