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‘60 Minutes’ Attacks Sugar as Toxic, Like ‘Cocaine’
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-ciandella/2012/04/03/60-minutes-attacks-sugar-toxic-cocaine ^

Posted on 04/03/2012 8:40:17 PM PDT by chessplayer

Sugar is a “toxin” that is killing the unwitting masses, according to an April 1, “60 Minutes” hosted by CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Gupta and all of the medical experts that he interviewed argued that sugar leads to heart disease, cancer (by leading to the creation of insulin, which cancer cells use to trigger their growth), and that sugar can actually be compared to certain drugs, like “cocaine,” in that it triggers the pleasure centers in the brain.

“New research coming out of some of America’s most respected institutions is starting to find that sugar, the way many people are eating it today, is a toxin,” Gupta said at the start of the segment.

Dr. Robert H. Lustig, MD, University of California San Francisco Professor of Pediatrics, was the primary expert in piece. Lustig told Gupta that he believes sugar should be treated the same way as tobacco and alcohol, substances which are still legal, but regulated.

“Ultimately, this is a public health crisis, and when there’s a public health crisis you have to do big things and you have to do them across the board. Tobacco and alcohol are perfect examples … I think that sugar belongs in this exact same wastebasket,” said Lustig.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drugs; drugwar; sourcetitlenoturl; warondrugs; wod; wodlist; wosd
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Anyone with even half a brain knows we consume way too much sugar. But something the body needs to survive needs to be put in the same category as tobacco? The body doesn't require nicotine and the hundreds of other poisons in tobacco to survive.
1 posted on 04/03/2012 8:40:21 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

60 Minutes went over the edge a long, long time ago but the morons still enjoy it.


2 posted on 04/03/2012 8:43:53 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The libs don't want to save da planit. If they did, they'd boycott BIG oil and petroleum products.)
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To: chessplayer
I think the politicians and the newsmedia are having a contest to see who can be the all time champion idiot.

So far, they're purt'near in a dead heat.

3 posted on 04/03/2012 8:44:08 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: chessplayer

I am so sick of all this carp. Where is the dang brake, I’m ready to pull it. Enough already...


4 posted on 04/03/2012 8:45:56 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: chessplayer

This brings to mind Rush Limbaugh’s exposé of carrots. He noted that Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Manson, and Al Capone ate carrots at one time or another and that ninety percent or more of all who ate carrots in 1918 are dead.


5 posted on 04/03/2012 8:46:23 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Heck, it’s been hours since I’ve snorted a trail
of XXX confectioners sugar.

Is my lip white, that could be milk, just sayin.


6 posted on 04/03/2012 8:47:19 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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You do not need refined sugar to survive. It is an extract of a tropicla plant and not a whole food. Your body must pull out mineral reserves to digest it properly, which is a reason many sugar addicts have rotting teeth.


7 posted on 04/03/2012 8:49:03 PM PDT by SatinDoll (No Foreign Nationals as our President!)
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Everything is bad and is going to kill you. I would recommend that liberals stop eating all that hormone laden beef and milk products, those awful, terrible genetically modified veggies and while they are at it they should stop breathing all that polluted air and drinking that contaminated water.


8 posted on 04/03/2012 8:49:48 PM PDT by tiki
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Six months ago my blood glucose level was getting too high,,,close to pre-diabetic levels. The normal range (at my clinic) is 70-100. My level was 98. Sometimes I go on sugar binges,,,lots of pastries, etc. So I started watching what I was eating, and my latest test last month I got my glucose down to 74.


9 posted on 04/03/2012 8:54:07 PM PDT by chessplayer
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The death is in the dose. If you shove a gazillion twinkies into your mouth, your lifespan will decrease in proportion. Duh!


10 posted on 04/03/2012 8:55:30 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: tet68

lol that was my first thought too! If you confusin’ sugar with coke you need a new dealah ;-0


11 posted on 04/03/2012 8:56:34 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: chessplayer

I smell a sin tax coming.


12 posted on 04/03/2012 8:56:45 PM PDT by Ms Mable
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To: chessplayer

The best damn food on the planet is in Mexico.

Why?

L A R D! And real open pit mesquite wood grilling.

Trans-fats, I embrace you! (about 3 times a year)...

:)


13 posted on 04/03/2012 8:57:06 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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“New research coming out of some of America’s most respected institutions is starting to find that sugar, the way many people are eating it today, is a toxin,” Gupta said at the start of the segment.

Whatever anyone might think of this information, it is certainly nothing new. Many have viewed refined sugar as a toxin for decades and a best selling book made that case in 1975:

Sugar Blues

Amazon says the book was published in 1986, but it was 1975 or sooner.

14 posted on 04/03/2012 8:57:17 PM PDT by Will88
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To: SatinDoll

You do not need refined sugar to survive. It is an extract of a tropicla plant and not a whole food. Your body must pull out mineral reserves to digest it properly, which is a reason many sugar addicts have rotting teeth.


True. But over-loading on even natural sugars can be bad. To the body, sugar is sugar.


15 posted on 04/03/2012 8:58:54 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: factoryrat

>>The death is in the dose. If you shove a gazillion twinkies into your mouth, your lifespan will decrease in proportion. Duh!<<

Unless you actually take on the attributes of the Twinkies. If you do, you will have a shelf life of somewhere in the bazillion year range...


16 posted on 04/03/2012 8:59:53 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: Smokin' Joe

“I think the politicians and the newsmedia are having a contest to see who can be the all time champion idiot.”

Smokin’ Joe: if you do not believe whatever the moron of the day says, you’re, you’re, you’re a RACIST! Yeah, that’s what you are! There! I won the argument.


17 posted on 04/03/2012 9:01:37 PM PDT by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: tiki

As in everything, moderation is the way to go.


18 posted on 04/03/2012 9:01:37 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: Ms Mable

/nods


19 posted on 04/03/2012 9:01:45 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: chessplayer

Can’t you see the hand writing on the wall? They are getting ready to regulate everything. Last couple of years they have been picking on salt and butter Sugar is obviously the next ‘threat’ to civilization.

Welcome to Mooshellland


20 posted on 04/03/2012 9:02:09 PM PDT by Nifster
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