Re: The Weight of a Nation: tonight on HBO

Post #357,498 by dmcarls 5/15/12 9:45:09 AM 5/15/12 9:56:05 AM Reply	Re: The Weight of a Nation: tonight on HBO I am also on the antenna, so I don't get HBO. However, there's a good Youtube video from 2009 explaining why this is such an insidious problem. (90 minutes) http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=dBnniua6-oM I have been following this off and on since the book "Sugar Blues" came out in the middle 80's (25+ years!). It's one of America's worst problems (IMO) and there's no real solution in sight. http://www.amazon.co...1337089378&sr=8-1 In your post, you recommend taxing them, but look what happens: http://www.motherjon.../more-sugar-lobby "...Since there wasn't much else going on that would have seriously affected them, that means they spent $34 million just to defeat the sugar tax." There's also a very recent interview with Kelly Brownell on NPR's Fresh Air: (30 min) http://www.npr.org/2...-obesity-epidemic Anyhow, thanks for the post! Edit: various changes Edited by dmcarls May 15, 2012, 09:49:08 AM EDT Re: The Weight of a Nation: tonight on HBO I am also on the antenna, so I don't get HBO. However, there's a good Youtube video from 2009 explaining why this is such an insidious problem. (90 minutes) http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=dBnniua6-oM I have been following this off and on since the book "Sugar Blues" came out in the middle 80's (25+ years!). It's one of America's worst problems (IMO) and there's no real solution in sight. http://www.amazon.co...1337089378&sr=8-1 Thanks for the post! There's also a very recent interview with Kelly Brownell on NPS's Fresh Air: (30 min) http://www.npr.org/2...-obesity-epidemic Edited by dmcarls May 15, 2012, 09:56:05 AM EDT Re: The Weight of a Nation: tonight on HBO I am also on the antenna, so I don't get HBO. However, there's a good Youtube video from 2009 explaining why this is such an insidious problem. (90 minutes) http://www.youtube.c...tch?v=dBnniua6-oM I have been following this off and on since the book "Sugar Blues" came out in the middle 80's (25+ years!). It's one of America's worst problems (IMO) and there's no real solution in sight. http://www.amazon.co...1337089378&sr=8-1 In your post, you recomment taxing them, but look what happens: http://www.motherjon.../more-sugar-lobby "...Since there wasn't much else going on that would have seriously affected them, that means they spent $34 million just to defeat the sugar tax." There's also a very recent interview with Kelly Brownell on NPS's Fresh Air: (30 min) http://www.npr.org/2...-obesity-epidemic Anyhow, thanks for the post! Collapse All History
Post #357,499 by boxley 5/15/12 9:56:40 AM Reply	taxing the wrong end of the pipeline instead of adding a tax to cornsweetened drinks, lets end the subsidies to both sugar and corn. At least modify the fuel subsidies for corn and eliminate any subsidies that go to corn sugar. Still support/create any needed subsidies for feed and food Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #357,506 by drook 5/15/12 1:18:04 PM Reply	+5 damn right -- Drew
Post #357,517 by Ashton 5/15/12 6:07:00 PM Reply	See? .. You Can be substantive, even in *nix brevity :-0 .hr Law above fear, justice above law, mercy above justice, love above all.

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