Flat out GUILTY!
Posted on 02/02/2012 7:02:33 AM PST by CharlesThe Hammer
I am a medical sociologist, which means I study the health of whole societies. I've spent more than 20 years studying the best possible ways to address alcohol problems in societies -- what works and what doesn't to protect people from harm.
I work as a professor in the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and at the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute. This allows me to connect with other scientists who come from very different backgrounds but who want to work together on big problems -- think of a Manhattan Project, only one focused on protecting health through the collaboration of scientists who study everything from tiny cells to entire societies.
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bad science at its best
I study the health of whole societies
I've spent more than 20 years studying the best possible ways to address alcohol problems in societies
I work as a professor in the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and at the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute
You should have taken a course on Narcissistic Personality Disorder while you were at UCSF, you insufferable nag.
“I am a Stand Up Philosopher.” - Comicus
Flat out GUILTY!
This is the same group of wannabees that have given us smoking bans, increased tobacco taxes and are working to have moving ratings include the use of tobacco products as one of the criteria.
Come to think of it, this could be fun. Like when my grandmother made homemade beer during Prohibition.
I could clandestinely sell back-alley cookies and fudge. Hmmmm, mysterious goings-on at married21’s house... kids arriving at all hours of the afternoon, with a crazed, hungry look in their eyes, leaving with little baggies...
I remember reading once (sorry, couldn’t find the source) that the three developed nations that consume the most cane sugar were Switzerland, Israel, and Singapore. Intuitively, that makes sense.
Of course, those are the countries where people are keeling over at age 50...
No, that’s wrong. Those countries all have average lifespans of over 80.
If anyone has a source that can confirm or refute my memory, please post. Thanks.
Unlike the junk science that is "global warming" however, the science behind America's enormous rate of obesity is simple and believable: high-fructose corn syrup - cheap sugar - is now the second or third largest ingredient in most packaged foods.
Sugar makes you fat, and pretty much everything we eat has enormous amounts of sugar added to it.
If someone puts five packets of sugar in their coffee people say: "Hey, want some coffee with your sugar?"
But a 12oz can of Coke has 13 packets' worth of sugar in it, and most people drink the 20oz nowadays instead of the can. The 20oz has the equivalent of 21 packets of sugar.
It's painfully obvious what's going on - there's no need for laws, just common sense.
CharlesThe Hammer ~ Right, I’m a “political proctologist”...and business is booming! What other pseudo-professions can we invent?
I know an "actual" scientist...
Pretty much what you would expect a female liberal busybody to look like.
Not sure why Israel and Singapore "make sense", although Switzerland does due to their chocolate industry.
However, the most recent figures I found indicated Brazil, Australia and Thailand as the largest consumers.
This makes much more sense: cane sugar is cheap and plentiful in Brazil and is in everything sweet there, in lieu of corn syrup.
Australians eat pretty much like Americans do, but they also use sugar instead of corn syrup as their prime sweetener.
Thailand's national coffee beverage is famous for its extreme sweetness, it is drunk there by everyone of every age and again, they use sugar instead of corn syrup.
Brazil and Thailand have a lower life expectancy than the US and Australia has a higher.
America is fourth in consumption in terms of sugar and first in corn syrup.
Her research program broadly focuses on the social dimensions of health and illness, with an emphasis on the political and organizational contexts in which health care is provided. Substantively, she studies several areas of concern in health policy today. A major strand of her research agenda has focused on the health care market, including studies of for-profit health care and her upcoming book on organizational change in American health care since 1965, Building the Health Care Market, under contract with Princeton University Press.
You don't have to read the rest of this verbal diarrhea to understand her political nuance.
I don’t need a mommy telling me to eat my vegetables and wash behind my ears.
Well said.
Liberalism in a nutshell:
someone poops their pants and we all have to wear diapers
—Liberalism in a nutshell:
someone poops their pants and we all have to wear diapers—
I think I may like that one even better than mine. :-)
sure it is but no one pays attention to common sense, mostly because it's free.
Eating all that sugar would not be that bad if not for the fact that many people, including kids, live a more sedentary life now. I know kids that can't wait to get home from school or whatever to sit in front of a box to play video games. I sit in front in front of box all day, and spend at least two hours in a box to get to and from the box that I sit in front of all day.
Our "culture" (hate that word) now looks down upon physical labor and allows only sanction physical activities - I wonder what would happen if I'm ever found climbing a tree?
If only pantie poopers wore diapers, it would single them out for ridicule.
That wouldn’t be fair to pantie poopers...
5150...
Eating to many refined carbohydrates causes as much damage as to much sugar. Is she going to ban bread also?
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