What's the deal with sugar?

Posted by: Rainbow

16th Mar 2012 10:29am

Do you think the Government should play a part in prohibiting the amount of sugar that's 'hidden' in processed foods? Perhaps imposing a tax on sugar? Do you think more education should be given on the dangers of excess sugar intake? Have you cut out sugar in the past and noticed a difference in your health and weight? Do you have a sugar substitute? Or do you simply not care...?

mysteron347

16th Mar 2012 11:54pm

Hooley dooley!

Can you imagine what a mess the politicians could make if they were to have a special department of sugar suppression? Look at the dog's breakfast they've created with product-labelling as it stands. Where does "local and imported" come from? Who has time to read every ingredients panel - and has the government issued magnifying glasses to read the things? Never mind running an education campaign with certificates and exams and subsidies and all.

Then we have ingredients lists that little old ladies selling home-made jam at church fêtes feel obliged to mimic. Warnings on peanut bars that "might" (according to the warning) contain peanuts. Star ratings for something or other, and GI ratings and what in the name of all that's holy is a "serve?" Oh - add on the "93.784% fat-free" and "low" calorie/joule/fat/contents warnings.

Geez - we'd land up with sugar-muncher certificates, sugar-withdrawal clinics, officialdom enforcing glucose and fructose limits with greater zest than hand-held-watering-ose limits. There'd be international conferences and agreements to work out, and treaties and the UN would get involved - and then we'd have to compensate our own sugar farmers and those overseas who would lose their means of support.

And the advertisements. The never-ending advertisements advising you over and over and over every five minutes - like the alcohol, speeding, electricity, water and everything else that the government has voted to have its nasty little grasping paws on.

Oh, and a tax. Of course a tax. And permits. Dead certain.

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