Sugar Tax – a BAD Idea – here is why

Updated June 21, 2013

Did Taxpayers Unwittingly Fund the Full Pre-Launch of Obesity Drugs…?

…Or is it a coincidence that just after a national push including surgery by a high profile lawmaker and proposed sugar bans, ETCETERA… that:

the FDA (an unelected agency) Approved Some Obesity Drugs; and then

the AMA (a trade organization) Experts Made Recommendations to Use Their Drugs; and then

the Drug Corporations lobbied for Insurers (=taxpayers) to Pay for Use of the Drugs…?

See:

Fighting Fat And Boosting Pharma: AMA Declares Obesity Is A Disease – 06/20/2013 – 8:35am by Ed Silverman
With No Evidence, AMA Votes that Obesity Is a Disease – June 21, 2013 by Heidi Stevenson.

We keep hearing that modern medicine is evidence based. So why did the AMA create the new disease of obesity by popular vote? Modern medicine prides itself on being evidence based. That, at least, is their claim. However, when it comes right down to it, the reality is entirely different. This is obvious in the American Medical Association’s (AMA’s) decision on Tuesday that obesity is now a disease. It makes no difference if an obese person is perfectly healthy. As far as they’re concerned, that person suffers from a disease. More:

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Also – From an article by Dr. Robert Rowen, MD http://robert-rowen-md.com

“Why a Tax on Sugar-Filled Soft Drinks Is a Bad Idea

When you get starved for oxygen, your brain can do wild things. And when governments get starved for their energy source, money, they can go wild, too. Take New York, for example. Governor David Patterson has proposed a controversial plan to replenish empty state coffers at the expense of soft drink users, specifically sugar-laden soft drinks.

If his plan succeeds, those who drink sugar-containing soft drinks will have to pay an additional 18% in taxes for this sin or luxury. The plan does not affect diet soft drinks. Allegedly, it will help fight the obesity epidemic. Actually, it will to some degree. It will lighten the weight in your wallet. But for the fat you carry, this idiotic plan is likely to make you worse.

I call it idiotic since published research overwhelmingly has shown that so-called diet drinks do nothing to foster weight loss. In fact, the evidence is that they increase weight. How might that happen? When you drink something that tastes sweet, your pancreas responds by making insulin in preparation for a natural load of sugar. No sugar comes. So your blood sugar drops and you get hungry. No wonder these diet drinks have failed in every way. Where they have succeeded is in increasing your food intake and weight, not in reducing it.

But it gets worse. Diet drinks are loaded with aspartame. Aspartame is 10% methanol, a horrible neurotoxin. Use of aspartame is linked to a large number of neurological abnormalities. I consulted with my own dentist today for his take on this. He would prefer his patients to drink sodas containing sugar rather than the poison. At least your body recognizes sugar, even if its not good for you. Aspartame and other sweetening chemicals are foreign to your body. Are you sure you want us to drink man-made chemicals, Governor Patterson?

A tax to encourage the consumption of terribly toxic chemicals is just plain nuts. Better to tax the whole of soft drinks to encourage a return to God-made water (the safest of all drinks) than selectively tax the safer of the toxic (sugar-containing) products.”

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR TO MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND THIS.

See also: Book Recommendation: While Science Sleeps

“The introduction of aspartame into the food supply of the United States began in the summer of 1981. Since that time, the incidence of Alzheimer’s deaths has increased 100 fold (10,000%). Autism has, with no explanation, increased 25 times (2500%). Autoimmune diseases have reached epidemic proportions, with Lupus (SLE) up 300%, and Multiple Sclerosis, Type II Diabetes and Rheumatoid Arthritis headed out of control. Cancers, the hallmark of formaldehyde exposure, have exploded. Skin cancer has shot up over 400%, liver cancer has tripled, kidney cancer has doubled, and breast cancer is up 50%. The list goes on….. This 250 page, full color book uses over 100 colorful illustrations, photographs, tables and graphs to explain to the average person the fascinating process by which methanol, a poison hidden in aspartame and some other foods, is converted to formaldehyde at the very locations in the human body where these diseases originate, revealing, for the first time, the exact details of the probable cause of each. It is a cautionary tale of the legacy of the danger of a poisonous food additive and the failure of a government, corrupted by greed, to safeguard the health and welfare of its people. This is a handbook that teaches the tools you will need to protect those you love and inform them about the causes of a number of diseases that have, until now, proven inexplicably elusive to a medical community beholden to Big Pharma …While Science Sleeps. Woodrow C. Monte PhD, Emeritus Professor of Nutrition, Arizona State University

The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke.”