[quote=SD Realtor]Yes you live in a country where you obviously cannot take care of yourself so somebody needs to take care of you.[/quote]
the problem is a bit more complex than simply personal choice.
if this problem is simply personal choice, then why are 2/3 of all Americans are making the wrong choices now, vs 1/3 making the wrong choices 30 years ago?
the problem here is sugar in large quantities can be highly addictive. the receptors it activates are the same ones activated by heroin. and people develop tolerance to it just like other drugs, and people go through withdrawal as well.
what is happening over the last 30 years is we have created a bunch of addicts, except nobody knows these are addicts.
what is the first step in AA? we are 30 years into this crisis and no one has come out and call it like it is, we got 2/3 of the population addicted to sugar. and we are creating little addicts even before they reach first grade every single day. (this is far worse than even 19th century China when most of the population were hooked on cheap opium dumped into China by Great Britain, substitute cheap opium with cheap sugar, and substitute Great Britain with the food industry today.)
outright ban doesn’t work, and the diet substitute is actually worse (you do not give “fake heroin” to heroin addicts, that just makes them OD at the next fix). we just need to restrict advertising to children, raise the price (coke is frequently cheaper than water), and double down on public education.
we done this before with another natural yet addictive product, nicotine. we can do it again, but the government needs to intervene, absolutely it does.
