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If there were one food & safety item the Biden Administration should put its focus on, it's destroying the US addiction to sugar generally and high fructose cor
by adventured 3y ago
If there were one food & safety item the Biden Administration should put its focus on, it's destroying the US addiction to sugar generally and high fructose corn syrup specifically. It would be an immense contribution to roll that backwards. And fix the mistake of proclaiming fat in general to be the problem decades past, by pushing national education on healthy / unhealthy fats. The US Government has a budget to put ads everywhere just focused on this matter.
And regarding the healthcare industrial complex. For the US scenario, there is only one approach that will work at this point: California needs to build its own universal healthcare system from the ground-up, and that includes utilizing the UC university system to train / educate its labor just to build that up. It's already understood how to model it, there are numerous good example nations to choose from (there are obviously multiple variations of a universal system that will work, and far better than what the US is doing now). California has scale and can control many aspects of a healthcare system that a smaller, weaker state can't (including manufacturing its own generic drugs if necessary).
Many prominent politicians keep trying to force universal healthcare as an idea, as though we can just slap it on top of our existing cost structure. It doesn't work right now due to the extreme cost of US healthcare (unless we want to instantly go broke nationally). You have to be able to start over from first steps and contain the cost correctly from day one. California is one of the few places that can do that, and it has the best shot at it overall (some money, majority favors universal healthcare politically, UC system, etc).
- jimbob45 3y agoSugar is really tough because a lot of popular items have much more sugar than most people realize. Consider this label of 2% Kroger milk[0]. That's 12g of sugar in one cup. If you stick two cups in your cereal, that's nearly 2/3 of the way to a can of coke and that's before you even consider how much sugar is in the cereal itself. [0]https://www.kroger.com/product/images/large/left/0001111041600 https://www.kroger.com/product/images/large/left/00011110416...
- Zelphyr 3y agoAgreed. There are over 50 different names for sugar that the FDA will accept on the ingredients list and you can bet your ass the food manufacturers will take advantage of that. I saw a popular granola bar once that listed four different kinds of sugar as the first four ingredients. Of course, the rest of the packaging touted the bar as being "healthy"
- 14 3y agoWow just checked my brand of milk and it is the same. I never paid attention or realized that before.
- Zelphyr 3y agoHave a look at your peanut butter. That's right. The major food manufacturers add sugar to peanut butter. One of the best peanut butters I've ever tasted was Crazy Richard's. Here's the ingredients list verbatim: Peanuts. (No, seriously. That’s all.)
- dragonwriter 3y agoIf you like milk, ultrafiltered milk (Fairlife is the big national brand, though I think there are some smaller brands) may be a good option here; its more expensive, but has less sugar (and not with any substitution).
- masfuerte 3y agoMany products have a great deal of added sugar, but the sugar in milk is naturally occurring lactose. It would be better to remove the breakfast cereal from your diet than the milk.