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Sugar Saturates Our Environment

Sugar needs to be regulated like other toxic and addictive substances

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NO! Genetic predisposition to diabetes runs rampant in my family, linked to the gene that affects the American Indian and other ethnic groups. Both of my children are diabetic, type 1, caused by their pancreas being damaged by flu virus. We have 9 members of our family that are type 1, four diagnosed as small children, one at a few months old. My daughter is found unconscious now on a regular basis. She had a pancreas and kidney transplant which failed. Insulin is ten to fifteen times more expensive than it was at her diagnosis at the age of 9 years. Blue Cross dropped her shortly after the transplants. Your arrogance sickens me. Being in medicine, you know very well that ordinary sugar or syrup is the fastest way to save a life threatened in diabetic coma. Our lives have been ravaged with this disease that we were born with. My children are disciplined and have worked like trojans. My opinion is no. Availability to sugar compounds that are inexpensive could very well save lives that could not be numbered in the future. The sick and the poor from being sick cannot afford your opinion and its influence. They do not eat sugar until they have to have it. They can die without it! Freedom is protected through education. If an individual disciplines action in their life, they may or may not be protected due to ordinary circumstance. Focus on the illegal drugs being sold, and prescription drugs given at rates to make addicts out of the entire nation. Stop political hypocrisy and plunder, hunger, rape, murder, rampant greed, theft and child molestation. The attempt to regulate the few inexpensive items left in an average persons existence is the real threat.

Sharon M. of AL 7:14PM March 31, 2012

YOU WANT TO SAVE LIVES?

Regulate the awful, hateful music kids listen too and the vile crap that the "entertainment industry" spews into our homes, neighborhood theaters and plasters all over billboards.

I rather be overweight than dehumanized by relativist, pop culture.

R.L. Schefer of CA 12:17PM March 31, 2012

This is sweet!!! major brands give out samples of their popular health products best place is "Official Samples" tell your friends too.

robertzhurd of CO 5:11AM March 31, 2012

el consumo de azucar es un problema de educacion, la publicidad insita al consumo, nadie dice al niño que el azucar en exceso es mala.

NO PROHIBIR, NO MAS TAXES, SI EDUCAR

SEVERO of CA 1:08AM March 31, 2012

Funny how you delete my comment because it points out how stupid you are.

fuurriisishha of AL 7:43PM March 30, 2012

Your logic is asinine. By your premise, all vitamins should be in the same category.. because after all, took much of fat and water soluble vitamins can cause a variety of health issues as well... See where this is going? To much of anything is bad for your health.

Tim of CT 7:38PM March 30, 2012

sugar is not addictive in any chemical way and therefore should not be grouped into the same category as alcohol or tobacco. people have the right to make unhealthy choices without government interference. the government should be able to say you have to be forthcoming about what the product is and that's it. thats what ingredient lists and nutrition facts are about. as far as age restrictions... i can just imagine that... you have a 13 year old diabetic kid with low blood sugar who dies because he cant buy a candy bar cuz hes not 18. guaranteed the liberal media wouldn't touch it. the government should have no influence over wither or not you choose to be un healthy. then on the opposite side you have people like me who no matter what they do they cant maintain a high enough weight to be healthy no matter what they eat. im also poor. if i couldn't afford foods that were likely to create weight gain it would cause me major problems.

chris of CA 5:56PM March 30, 2012