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2019-06-01 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

‘Sugar taxes’ could finally get people to eat less junk food

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Posted by Fred 2019-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 They already implemented a 'sugar tax' in some cities on soda. It's all about the tax, not the sugar. They tax diet drinks, zero calories, the same as regular drinks.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-01 08:07|| 2019-06-01 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Hypoglycemia actually left me in seizures after a 14 hour flight from Boston to Shanghai, with no substantial food. People need to leave sugar alone. Some people really need it. I was okay after a bottle of juice at the airport (beer on the plane was useless).

Posted by Beau 2019-06-01 08:15|| 2019-06-01 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 BTW, if you are serious about the 'evils of sugar' end the subsidies.

"In the United States, fewer than 4,500 farm businesses produce sugar. Yet they cost taxpayers up to $4 billion a year in subsidies."

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-06-01 08:50|| 2019-06-01 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Sugar import programs

Posted by Skidmark 2019-06-01 11:42|| 2019-06-01 11:42|| Front Page Top

#5 We could just stop giving sugar farms subsidies. No new taxes but still hitting sugar makers in the pocketbook and helping balance the federal deficit seems like a win for all concerned. Except the nanny state socialists.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2019-06-01 14:32|| 2019-06-01 14:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Actually, sugar is better for one than corn syrup.
Tastes better to. Compare Mexican Coke made with sugar to US Coke made with corn syrup.

Posted by 3dc 2019-06-01 15:26|| 2019-06-01 15:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Your body has to get sugar directly or extract it from food to make adenosine triphosphate, the basic fuel of all cells. Like sodium, there's an optimal amount. Trying to get by on too little is often more immediately catastrophic than consuming more than the body needs. Neither extreme is good.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-06-01 15:36|| 2019-06-01 15:36|| Front Page Top

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