Sugar: The real crack.

Here we go again, first trans-fat then salt, now sugar.  The government in their infinite (lack of) wisdom wants to control sugar just like tobacco and alcohol. Co-author and sugar researcher Robert Lustig, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment, Study, and Treatment, told WebMD. “There has to be some sort of societal intervention. We cannot do it on our own because sugar is addictive. Personal intervention is necessary, but not sufficient.”…

Sugar-Free America

In their research they claim the following: Sugar meets the same criteria for regulation as alcohol, the authors wrote, because it’s unavoidable, there’s potential for abuse, it’s toxic, and it negatively impacts society. They write that sugar is added to so many processed foods that it’s everywhere, and people eat up to 500 calories per day in added sugar alone. Sugar acts on the same areas of the brain as alcohol and tobacco to encourage subsequent intake, they wrote, and it’s toxic because research shows that sugar increases disease risk from factors other than added calories, such as when it disrupts metabolism…

Honestly, is this for real?  Social Intervention?  Now we have a flip side on this issue.  Senator Richard Lugar wants to cut the government control of the cost of sugar.  A free sugar market.  The US began price control of sugar in the early 20^th century to protect the US Beet Sugar farmers from the Cane Sugar growers of the world but now has added extra taxes and tariffs to US production costing jobs and Americans billions of dollars a year.

The future looks so bright, one side wants to keep sugar from us, masked in the health needs of America, and one wants to give us sugar at a reasonable price in an ever failing economy.  Each item the government takes away under the pretense of protection is a right they take away in the name socialization.  Face it this is all really about the lack of family, lack of responsibility and the lack of sensibility.  Zombified parents do not raise children, they raise dependent zombies, dependent on society to take care of them and make all those tough decision, like should I have a #2 with cola or make a salad with some homemade lemonade.  We are loosing our ability to be responsible and letting someone else control our own destiny.  We are no longer human, we are zombies.