Sugar addiction

Okay, I'm not sure this is really tin foil hat material, as every thing I look into makes it look more than obvious. I can easily see big agriculture and big pharma teaming up to create a society of chronically ill, overweight, sugar addicts that are hooked on sugar until they turn diabetic, then shift their sugar buying dollars towards insulin meds and test strips and such, on which their life depends. Evil - yes, but if the people are dumb enough to buy it, the industry will sell it.

Enter big government... The above situation has been noticed by many people I am sure, including government types. And I can easily see most of them turning a blind eye and not saying a word to get that big sugar/pharma check. But ALL of them ? Or is there something more nefarious going on ?

Imagine a population of chronically ill, in some cases critically ill, diabetic, and even some that just think they are sick ( See: "Joe versus the Volcano" - Tom Hanks gets a "brain cloud" ). A population that needs, or thinks they need their daily/weekly medication or they will die. A medication that is controlled by government ( Obamacare ). Then you'd have a population that would do pretty much whatever you want them to do whenever you want. Hmmmm.. Is this a plan in motion and at what stage ?

Naaawww, nevermind. I just remembered the government is way to incompetent to pull something like that off.. The health insurance industry though....

Oh, and if you think you can just quit sugar... Try it..

You can do it, but it's harder than you think. There are some here on SM that have done it. But it's not easy.

 

I'm glad I'll never live to see this. Or at least it would be highly unlikely I'll live to see it.

The dark underbelly of sustainable development: Agenda 21 - NaturalNews.com

Ohhh.. It might be attempted in the years left of life expectancy I have remaining. But I'll never live to see it come to fruition. And neither will a good number of "them"...

And the lock boxes on the commercial buildings they talk about in the article, those are for the fire department, at least that's the official reasoning. That is a State law in Michigan. I have to have one of those on my building. And if there is a fire, fine.. If somebody comes in when they are not supposed to. Well then there's a reason I've posted this sign in my shop

 

Kicking sugar addiction is dead easy, I've done it hundreds of times....

 

November will be my second year of not eating sugar or products with added sweeteners other than fresh fruit.

 

One word. Saccharin.
Better living through chemicals.

 

I've switched to (organic) coconut sugar, at least for my daily cups of wakeup juice(which is my main source of white sugar on a regular basis). I like it because for baking, the subsitution ratio for white sugar is 1:1, you just use the exact same amount. It doesn't seem as sweet to me, but that's okay. Plan to get a bunch of honey this fall too.

 

No it is not! I will admit that I am a sugar addict. I do not drink soda but I get really ugly if I go to long without cake. I have cut down to almost without but sugar in in everything, Why does Lawry's feel the need to put sugar in their garlic salt? There is no need. Plus I am like @BTPost, I couldn't imagine life without peanut butter.

 

Is that better @Motomom34 ?

 

@ motomom34,

You are right, there is a consistent effort to put sugar into everything. It could possibly be as simple as economic motivation by the marketing industry, changing people's tastes over time to include a higher sugar intake. Without it, they feel it isn't as tasty as it used to be.

I hate that there is sugar in salsa. There is far too many carbs in salsa, and HFCS or just corn syrup is added because people these days will not buy it without it tasting a bit sweet. I buy the pizza kits (where you mix water in the flour to make the dough, spread the sauce and cheese, and bake) that used to have a tart tasting pizza sauce. Now it is sweet and I have to add copious amounts of hot sauce to overcome it. I miss the old sauce.

There are many other examples, but they are too long to list without getting boring.

More carbs are just a bad side effect. Having a higher blood sugar concentration can lead to bacterial infection, where they are harder to kill and thrive in.

 

Sugar addiction was discovered by a female talkshow-host as a mean to explain her weightproblems.

Everybody needs carbs and it is not an addiction. We humans, like other mamals (animals or even life in general I would guess) just don't have a natural defence against over-eating. Our evolution hasn't caught up with the idea that this food can be stored in fridges and coolers and more food can be gotten easily and there will be no starvation.

 

I have cut back on my sugar. I am finding more and more that I no longer like the way I feel after eating cake or other sugar laden treats. I do have a question regarding the substitute sweeteners. If I stop at a gas station to get a cup of coffee I see a blue pack, pink, yellow plus a white packet of normal sugar and a tan packet of raw. Which is the lessor of evils?



I have a sweetener at home that has:
NutraFlora(FOS)
Xylitol
Micronized Sucralose
Lo Han
Stevia
A little pinch goes a long ways. So what do people use for sweetener when they are out and about?

 

All things in moderation. I cannot have potato chips in the house. We all have our weak spots when it comes to food

 

Thanks Brokor!

Ganado,, that was a hard one for us. We now eat crackers instead. You can make your own cheeze-its and potato chips, vanilla wafers. My friends makes them all the time. I will get the recipes for you if you would like them.

Did you notice when the potato chips started to change? It was still quite a while before we stopped buying chips and fritos from Frito-Lay. They must be full of gmos now. I cannot have them in the house either. We do buy off-brand chips and fritos that are pretty good.

 

@pearlselby I just make zucchini chips along with other veggies. love toasted kale as well the on k y veggie I can't seem to make into a chip are green beans and snap peas like to sit on a stool in the kitchen and work on my laptop when I make chips in the oven.

 

lol..Kale and Zucchini chips sound wonderful. Thanks for the ideas.