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RFK Jr calls sugar ‘poison’ but says government probably can’t eliminate it

US health secretary says Americans should eat ‘zero’ sugar

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by Anonymousreply 72April 26, 2025 3:50 AM

He'll be the hero to gay men everywhere and hated by every poor person in the Midwest and the South for saying this.

by Anonymousreply 1April 23, 2025 3:51 AM

He's not wrong.

by Anonymousreply 2April 23, 2025 3:52 AM

Could you imagine if they tried to ban sugar??? The revolution would begin within moments!

by Anonymousreply 3April 23, 2025 3:52 AM

He has a good point. Sugar cravings can be satisfied with fruit.

by Anonymousreply 4April 23, 2025 3:54 AM

MY COLD.

DEAD.

HAAAAAANDS!!!

by Anonymousreply 5April 23, 2025 4:01 AM

Ummm… does Dumper and all his fat MAGAts know about this?

by Anonymousreply 6April 23, 2025 4:38 AM

I’m for getting sugar out of things. I always read the nutrition label before I buy any food and it’s very frustrating to have to put interesting things back on the shelf after seeing how many grams of added sugar there are in it.

One of the most ridiculous things is that there is an option to buy canned and packaged fruit “with no sugar added”. It should all be no sugar added! Apples, peaches, etc. are already sweet. It’s crazy to add sugar.

by Anonymousreply 7April 23, 2025 4:50 AM

R5 wins.

Sugar is bad.

But if I want some on occasion, I'd like to have it.

I'm thrilled that a lot of criminals were flown out of the country. But I think the guy who shouldn't have been booted be brought back.

by Anonymousreply 8April 23, 2025 4:53 AM

And did he mention how much heroin Americans should consume?

by Anonymousreply 9April 23, 2025 5:32 AM

He looks so unhealthy.

by Anonymousreply 10April 23, 2025 5:37 AM

It isnt poison but it does need to be used in moderation, something a lot of people - not just Americans - dont do

by Anonymousreply 11April 23, 2025 6:01 AM

A single can of Coke has ten teaspoons of sugar in it. That's more than is recommended for an entire day.

Ain't no way the mega/MAGA food corporations would allow for the removal of sugar from our products.

by Anonymousreply 12April 23, 2025 6:09 AM

Posion. He knows from poison?

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by Anonymousreply 13April 23, 2025 6:14 AM

Girl sit DOWN

by Anonymousreply 14April 23, 2025 6:16 AM

[quote] Ain't no way the mega/MAGA food corporations would allow for the removal of sugar from our products.

Coca-Cola is not MAGA, but they do provide harmful products to minorities.

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by Anonymousreply 15April 23, 2025 6:18 AM

I put two tablespoons of sugar in a cup of tea. But I only have it like once a week or less.

by Anonymousreply 16April 23, 2025 7:03 AM

[quote]Oh Papa Tooney. We've got a Looney!

(And some of the rest of you on this thread.)

by Anonymousreply 17April 23, 2025 7:11 AM

Sugar is so poisonous that humans (and all other animals, fungi, & bacteria) have dedicated organs for storing it and converting it to energy. Total poison! Lol.

by Anonymousreply 18April 23, 2025 7:40 AM

The surgeon general is the one who tells us to exercise more and eat less sugar. The Secretary of HHS is there to ensure the safety and approval of medication, inspection of food, abd funding of research--all of which the asshole has scuttled.

He needs to go. He can't do his job.

by Anonymousreply 19April 23, 2025 7:41 AM

Thank you, R19.

by Anonymousreply 20April 23, 2025 7:58 AM

If he tries to stop people on SNAP from buying soda the owners of Pepsi and Coke I would think would be against it and would try to stop him.

by Anonymousreply 21April 23, 2025 10:10 AM

He's not wrong

by Anonymousreply 22April 23, 2025 10:11 AM

Ultimately, it’s a personal choice to consume sugar, and it shouldn't be banned. The nutrition label provides the information we need; that's enough. I have no doubt he consumes far worse things. Also, why is the party of “freedom” taking away my sugar? We see the same hypocrisy again and again.

by Anonymousreply 23April 23, 2025 10:17 AM

High fructose corn syrup is the devil not real sugar (in moderation).

by Anonymousreply 24April 23, 2025 10:21 AM

But viruses are a-ok, and natural, and we have to gulp down as many as we can so we can become strong and robust! Look at that man's face -- is this someone you want to take health advice from?

by Anonymousreply 25April 23, 2025 10:28 AM

Both high fructose corn syrup and table sugar are not great, but R24 is correct. High fructose corn syrup is the worst because unlike table sugar, high fructose corn syrup can only be broken down by the liver, and can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

by Anonymousreply 26April 23, 2025 10:37 AM

Just eat entire bags of dates!

by Anonymousreply 27April 23, 2025 10:41 AM

Why do the anti-sugar people tell us to eat fruit, when fruit is loaded with sugar?

by Anonymousreply 28April 23, 2025 10:54 AM

RFK Jr. and his MAHA have made things topsy-turvy, where red states are leading the way in doing the right thing by no longer allowing SNAP to be used for chips and pop. Blue states should join in.

[quote] Experts say the state efforts to add soda and candy to the prohibited list is likely to be effective in shifting SNAP recipients away from junk food.

[quote]"If they have to spend their own money on junk food, they're not going to buy as much junk food," Marion Nestle, a professor emerita of public health at New York University, told ABC News.

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by Anonymousreply 29April 23, 2025 11:01 AM

I’m a sugar-holic, but eating a little crystallized ginger stopped my sugar cravings. I also look for things without high fructose corn syrup. They add that shit to everything thanks to heartland Republicans and corn farmers.

by Anonymousreply 30April 23, 2025 11:03 AM

[quote]Why do the anti-sugar people tell us to eat fruit, when fruit is loaded with sugar?

[quote] Whole fruits are full of antioxidants and other nutrients and are high in fiber. Although fruits contain quite a bit of sugar, it is packaged inside cells, so digestive enzymes have to break down the cells to free fruit sugars, releasing them slowly into the bloodstream. When you eat an apple, you remain sated longer and are less likely to overeat than when you have a donut, whose sugar is immediately available.

[quote] Enjoy a variety of fruits, with one caution: stick to whole fruit instead of juice. The process of squeezing the fruit breaks open the cells, releasing the sugars. When you drink a glass of apple juice, you're going to get more sugar into your blood faster, and are likely to feel hungry sooner, than when you eat an apple.

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by Anonymousreply 31April 23, 2025 11:06 AM

Compared to this assistant thing, R10?

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by Anonymousreply 32April 23, 2025 11:16 AM

On this one, RFK Jr and I agree. Years ago when Sarah Wilson wrote a book called 'I quit sugar' we did. It was easier than we thought.

by Anonymousreply 33April 23, 2025 11:17 AM

Because R28, they're somewhat ill informed on the subject of sugar. I guess they think if something grows on a tree or bush, it's fine, but the fact is fruit is loaded with fructose, sucrose, and glucose. Just like table sugar.

by Anonymousreply 34April 23, 2025 11:21 AM

1) The alternatives to real cane sugar are HFCS and aspartame, both are worse and one causes cancer.

2) It will be impossible for retailers to enforce a snap ban of candy and soda.

3) Donald Rumsfeld was an evil cunt and RFK Jr is clearly mentally ill.

by Anonymousreply 35April 23, 2025 11:41 AM

R26 is talking nonsense. Here’s what AI has to say about it:

While both high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and table sugar (sucrose) contain fructose, the assertion that HFCS is worse because it can only be broken down by the liver is inaccurate. Both sweeteners are metabolically processed through the liver, and excessive consumption of either can contribute to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Here's a more detailed explanation: Metabolic Process: Both HFCS and sucrose are broken down into fructose and glucose, which are then primarily metabolized by the liver. Fructose Metabolism: The liver is the primary organ for fructose metabolism, and excess fructose consumption can lead to the conversion of fructose into fat, a process called lipogenesis. NAFLD: Excessive fructose intake, regardless of the source (HFCS or sucrose), can contribute to the development of NAFLD, a condition where too much fat accumulates in the liver. Similar Health Effects: Studies comparing HFCS and sucrose at similar doses have shown similar effects on body weight, insulin response, and feelings of fullness. One study found that the HFCS group had higher levels of CRP, a marker of inflammation. Other Factors: The overall amount of added sugar consumed, not just the source, is a major contributor to health problems like obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease.

by Anonymousreply 36April 23, 2025 12:12 PM

This crazy bastard burned up far too many of his brain cells during his doping years. Now he's fixated on bullshit theories. He needs to be institutionalized. But, I guess it could be worse. He could be fixated on religion too.

by Anonymousreply 37April 23, 2025 12:15 PM

R28 and R34, fruit is loaded with very healthful vitamins, nutrients and fiber (which ensures a gradual absorption of sugar). Sugar in itself is not bad, the body does an excellent job of converting it into energy. The problem is megadoses of processed sugar that is consumed daily by most people.

I avoided fruit most of my life. I just didn't like the taste or texture. I forced myself to eat fruit everyday a few months ago. I love fruit now and eat a fruit mixture daily (one - two cups). It gives me a huge boost of energy and I think it has really improved my skin. To think eating a pear is like eating a Snickers bar is ludicrous.

by Anonymousreply 38April 23, 2025 12:50 PM

In Asia you have to read the labels on FRESH milk, it often has sugar added.

by Anonymousreply 39April 23, 2025 1:23 PM

When Michelle Obama made polite suggestions about dietary changes that could help obese children live healthier lives MAGA flew into a white racist rage. So now a (former?) junkie tells them they can't drink a mega-size Mountain Dew everyday and not a peep from MAGA?!

by Anonymousreply 40April 23, 2025 2:39 PM

From article at r29

[quote] "Controlling how the poor eat is a paternalistic response to a problem that is not based in SNAP recipients' inability to make good decisions about healthy foods."

I think the main problem for SNAP recipients is that the least expensive food is the highly-processed crap that is most readily available in food deserts. If you can't just hop in your SUV to drive five blocks to Whole Foods to spend $150 every other day, your options are limited.

by Anonymousreply 41April 23, 2025 2:50 PM

I'm talking nonsense R36? Watch your tone, Carol-Ann, and sip on a gallon of some high fructose corn syrup.

Here's an AI explanation. It's the LIVER. The liver can only break down fructose, and excess consumption can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Now go back to knitting your next caftan.

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by Anonymousreply 42April 23, 2025 4:42 PM

[quote] the least expensive food is the highly-processed crap that is most readily available in food deserts.

Food deserts are easily solvable. We only have to follow the advice that Sam Kinison gave about feeding people who in an actual desert.

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by Anonymousreply 43April 23, 2025 4:52 PM
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by Anonymousreply 44April 23, 2025 4:58 PM

[quote]Why do the anti-sugar people tell us to eat fruit, when fruit is loaded with sugar?

Because in fruit you get fiber with the sugar.

by Anonymousreply 45April 23, 2025 5:23 PM

[quote] Years ago when Sarah Wilson wrote a book called 'I quit sugar' we did. It was easier than we thought.

"we"

Are you Trudi "When Rabbit Howls" Chase?

by Anonymousreply 46April 23, 2025 5:50 PM

No one ever got fat from eating fruit.

by Anonymousreply 47April 23, 2025 5:59 PM

When will RFK II be proposing a ban on anabolic steroids?

by Anonymousreply 48April 23, 2025 6:24 PM

We’re only three months in. He’ll get to other health concerns in the coming months and years.

by Anonymousreply 49April 23, 2025 6:27 PM

R46, WE being a couple. Got it...sigh.

by Anonymousreply 50April 23, 2025 6:50 PM

Years ago I was diagnosed as pre-diabetic, and several people told me there would be all kinds of fruits and even vegetables (!!) like carrots I wouldn't be able to eat because they had too much sugar in them. I asked my doctor, and she said that used to be a popular idea in some quarters, but in recent years dieticians and doctors have realized the amount of fiber in fruits mean they do not trigger diabetes for the most part. She warned me to stay away from exceptionally sweet tropical fruits like pineapple, but said I could have as much berries, apples, pears as I could handle. She said thinking your sugar levels could be raised by eating carrots, in particular, has now been thoroughly discounted. I took her advice, and I have not become diabetic,.

It's weird how old outdated medical advice still lingers in the popular imagination even when it's been largely discounted. When my sister got diverticultis a few years ago, so many people told her she was forbidden from eating sunflower seeds or popcorn, even though it's been known for several years that those foods actually do nothing to worsen diverticulosis. And I still know so many people who will not eat avocados or drink anything other than skim milk for fear they will get fat.

by Anonymousreply 51April 23, 2025 7:02 PM

His father and 2 uncles are rolling in their graves as I type.

by Anonymousreply 52April 23, 2025 7:48 PM

Poor poisoned Trumpie eating two Big Macs a day. Equivalent to `16 tsp of sugar.

Die, mofo, die.

by Anonymousreply 53April 23, 2025 7:59 PM

What does this Kennedy think of gun control? Healthy or not healthy?

by Anonymousreply 54April 23, 2025 8:06 PM

R51, a doctor told me the same thing. I avoided fruit for three years and only recently said fuck it.

Fun fact: Hawaii (eventually) became a US state due to sugar tariffs. Why else would a few islands in the middle of a freaking ocean matter when Cuba was much closer. Sure militarily Hawaii was important but that came later, sugar in the late 1800s was the motivation to overthrow the monarchy and become a US territory.

by Anonymousreply 55April 25, 2025 2:13 PM

Banning sugar-based options in schools is important. Some places have gone that route - but it was ridiculous what was going on in cafeterias 15-20 years ago. I have no idea what it looks like now, but I'd have to hope it is better.

We've allowed food manufacturers to run amok with ingredients - but I don't think anyone will have much success in tackling that.

by Anonymousreply 56April 25, 2025 2:23 PM

If you're not a big fat whore and obese by seventy pounds, you don't have to worry about sugar, hfcs, salt, or diabetes, stop being fat whores! All the bad markers come down when you lose weight.

by Anonymousreply 57April 25, 2025 3:26 PM

That's just not true, r57.

I'm thin, but I'm pre-diabetic anyway--diabetes can be an inherited condition.

by Anonymousreply 58April 25, 2025 3:46 PM

You can train your taste buds to stop craving sugar. It takes a couple of months to fully get to the point, but it does happen. I hardly crave sweet stuff these days.

by Anonymousreply 59April 25, 2025 3:53 PM

NO SUGAR

Anabolic steroids for all

Heroin in moderation

by Anonymousreply 60April 25, 2025 4:08 PM

… and don’t forget to bring your raspy voice and worn out face!

by Anonymousreply 61April 25, 2025 4:31 PM

[quote]One of the most ridiculous things is that there is an option to buy canned and packaged fruit “with no sugar added”. It should all be no sugar added! Apples, peaches, etc. are already sweet. It’s crazy to add sugar.

It's really not that ridiculous. To survive the canning process, fruit generally has to be underripe. The food canner has to add sugar to make the fruit taste like fully ripe fruit. Canning also reduces the flavor of fruit and sugar helps to make it more edible. In addition, the fruit will not survive storage as well in the can without sugar. In addition, if you are buying sugar -free canned fruit, they are often canned in fruit juice or concentrated fruit juice (i.e., a lot of natural sugars). Whether those natural sugars are any better for you than refined sugars is questionable. For example, drinking apple juice isn't much better than drinking sugar water.

There is a huge amount of unnecessary sugar in the American diet, but their use in canned goods is long-standing and has some logical justification. Sugar has been almost universal in canning fruit since canning began. If you want edible fruit without sugar, you usually have to eat fresh fruit or one of the fruits that freeze well.

by Anonymousreply 62April 25, 2025 4:48 PM

I asked a gastroenterologist how to avoid sugar in my diet. He said “you can’t, it’s in just about everything” and that you just have to be aware of how much you’re eating and act accordingly.

And, as above, that fresh fruit is the best way to wean yourself from white sugar. I love fresh squeezed OJ, and sure, a segmented orange is messier, but eating it tastes the same and the benefit is extra fiber that’s good in your gut.

by Anonymousreply 63April 25, 2025 5:10 PM

R63 -that's not necessarily true. Sugar is found in prepared, canned and processed foods. Buy whole foods and reduce pre-made and packaged foods.

There's a big difference between sugar content and added sugars.

But people LOVE their 'flavored' yogurts (all sugar), their macchiato with 2 pumps of vanilla (all sugar), their frozen yogurt (more sugar), protein bars (added sugars), etc.

People are absolutely stupid about ingredients and nutrition. You can avoid 95% of all the sugar thrown at us - very easily.

by Anonymousreply 64April 25, 2025 5:21 PM

Brainworm Bobby's pet hate: sugar.

Trump Admin's go-to stimulant: booger sugar.

by Anonymousreply 65April 25, 2025 5:28 PM

R28 Fruits contain fiber which prevents sugar spikes in addition to having health benefits they contain no dyes, preservatives or processed sugars

by Anonymousreply 66April 25, 2025 5:31 PM

[quote]r47 = No one ever got fat from eating fruit.

Just banished.

by Anonymousreply 67April 25, 2025 5:34 PM

Josef Mengele Kennedy Jr., who's assembling a national registry of people with autism and setting the stage for a massive surge of deadly and disabling childhood diseases via his anti-vaxx crusade,, is not someone you should be nodding tour head in agreement with. Like salt, saturated fats, gluten and carbs, sugar is fine in moderation for most people.

by Anonymousreply 68April 25, 2025 5:35 PM

[quote] Josef Mengele Kennedy Jr.,

I wish I had more than one WW to give you.

by Anonymousreply 69April 25, 2025 6:01 PM

R58 , then you are one of the few like five percent, and you probably are lying at that, stop whining and lose the weight, it really works you whiner, stop telling people stupid things while people's legs turn black and die, you are a big problem, or is this Babydyke and her fat ass WFH shit?

by Anonymousreply 70April 25, 2025 7:15 PM

Don't take my Nilla Wafers away.

by Anonymousreply 71April 25, 2025 7:54 PM

Don't take away my canned fruit in heavy syrup. Love to have it over cottage cheese. Also canned fruit is good for an upset stomach.

by Anonymousreply 72April 26, 2025 3:50 AM
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