How does this save money?
“How does this save money?”
Thank you. It doesn’t it. I’m disturbed to see Gelinas endorsing this.
Let Them Drink Water!
The new cry of the rulers.
We, as a nation, have decided to give food aid to the poor, or semi-poor.
Now, we can debate the merits of that and I suppose we might decide not to do it at all.
And, as a big beer drinker myself I recognize the other freeper’s point that guiness might actually be better for you than soda, but I still think alcoholic beverages are in a different class.
However, this entire concept buys into the gov’t wishing to control us. To ensure we are “healthy” so we can be good little servants of the State.
I despise that attitude, it’s more of the we work for them attitude which is really going to kill this country, way more than welfare, or illegal immigration, or anything else ever could.
THEY WORK FOR US and they need to be reminded of this constantly.
I’m NOT a libertarian, but I might just have to become one if this nanny-=state bs doesn’t stop.
Obesity related Medicare/Medicaid bills, IMHO.
Fructose, insulin resistance, and metabolic dyslipidemia
With the relatively newer diagnoses of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, NAFLD, and Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, MODY, it's high time to test the hypothesis that high fructose corn syrup, HFCS, has any basis in the etiology of NAFLD and MODY.
Discipline of kids has been reduced to rewarding them with sweet stuff when they do the right thing. Physical discipline can result in loss of custody of your kids or jail time.
If you check one of the HFCS links by me, this stuff in soft drinks is HFCS-55, 55% fructose and 42% glucose. The remainder is negligible, IMHO, but that's almost a 4:3 ratio of fructose to glucose favoring the production of the glycerol spine of triglycerides. One of the reactions is spontaneous requiring no enzyme, IIRC.
IMHO, it's time to do a few population studies using sucrose versus HFCS sweetened soft drinks about the incidence of NAFLD and MODY, not to mention metabolic syndrome, aka syndrome X.