Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic, contributing to 35 million deaths annually worldwide from non-communicable diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.Instead of replacing one "burden" with another (taxing the calorically responsible), let's just burden the calorically irresponsible with the results of their irresposibility, i.e., tax fat person items and have them pay for the real costs of their sick care.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Public Health Burden Could Be Eased By Societal Control Of Sugar
Stoopid.
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