Bullshit sugar is self-medication for depression/anxiety/psychological issues. Besides the fact it makes all those things worse, you can get the same effect fr

Bullshit sugar is self-medication for depression/anxiety/psychological issues. Besides the fact it makes all those things worse, you can get the same effect from eating sweet foods richer in fibre and nutrients, and the “dose” people are using is like treating a toothache by taking 5 Tylenol. People aren’t carefully dosing out sugar in response to adverse events, they’re indulging in mega doses all day every day. I know people who got type 2 diabetes from sugar usage and the vast majority of them magically find the willpower to cut sugar once it’s about to kill them. Not to say their diets were wonderful afterwards but few people are so addicted to sugar they couldn’t stop if they REALLY needed to. There’s a ton of learned helplessness and people just make things that aren’t their health their priority in life unless they’re forced to because it takes so much time and energy to eat a low sugar diet that they just decide they don’t care enough. Man I guess the majority of Americans must be anxious and depressed given they’re all eating huge quantities of sugar. I guess if we label things an illness that means we need to both accept this and pat people on the back for taking charge of their health and self-medicating.