FDA and added sugar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is forcing people to consume sugar.

Addiction is.
The degree of destruction is not the same as other substances.
So we have to be careful not making light of deeper addictions.

But, most people would not choose sugar if they could help it. They recognize it tastes good and occasionally is meaningful. I would say goodbye and sometimes I do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go look at any nutrition label on a packages food. Have you ever noticed that the “added sugar” line is the only only line that doesn’t have a corresponding “percentage of daily value?”

You can thank the sugar lobby for that. They are very powerful. No one would want to see that every candy bar or cereal is 2500% the daily value of added sugar. They don’t care about your health. They just want to make money.

What are you talking about? 2500%?

Even the sweetest sugar cereals probably have less than 15 grams per serving. A candy bar probably 20-25g. Most sweet processed foods are all going to be somewhere in that range or a bit more per serving. Just about the daily amount that is recommend as a healthy guideline and about half of the FDA 50 grams.

[Anonymous]

Omg it’s called hyperbole. Seriously doubt PP really meant 2500%

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Go look at any nutrition label on a packages food. Have you ever noticed that the “added sugar” line is the only only line that doesn’t have a corresponding “percentage of daily value?”

You can thank the sugar lobby for that. They are very powerful. No one would want to see that every candy bar or cereal is 2500% the daily value of added sugar. They don’t care about your health. They just want to make money.

This post is so dumb is must be troll. Look two posts up for a label that shows exactly like what you say doesn’t exist.

BTW, it’s 50g/day of added sugar for RDA.

Or perhaps you are this dumb. How much TikTok are you watching these days for nutrition advice?

Wow, you are a jerk. I was wrong that the label was recently amended to add that fact but there was a long history of this being the case if you had taken time to educate yourself before spewing your vitriol.

https://medium.com/writers-blokke/the-raw-story-behind-sugars-omission-as-a-percentage-of-daily-value-from-nutrition-labels-bd5d4632a0b5

Next time do your own research before being so wrong. The thread is about the present day. Turns out the FDA did something about added sugar. I’m sure it’s still a big conspiracy. Or people don’t care and won’t invest their own to time educating themselves about what they are putting in their bodies.

Go buy a tinfoil hat

[Anonymous]

Eat unprocessed. Eat nothing with an ingredient list. (Eat real foods.)

[Anonymous]

The FDA sucks. Europe is so much better at regulating this, which is why Europeans are thinner and healthier, and the majority of Americans are overweight at best. Like no digit sizing should exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The FDA sucks. Europe is so much better at regulating this, which is why Europeans are thinner and healthier, and the majority of Americans are overweight at best. Like no digit sizing should exist.

^double digit Size 12 and beyond

[Anonymous]

This isn’t the role of FDA. And there is so much backlash against local health departments that have tried to reduce sugar (remember when NY tried to reduce the size of soft drinks?). No way that congress expands FDA’s ability to regulate sugar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one is forcing people to consume sugar.

No, but you have to be awfully vigilant to avoid it.

No you don’t. All you have to do is turn the product over and read a label.

When eating premade food, like take out/restaurant/bakery assume the worst with regards to added sugar and you will be correct.

Yeah I don't understand how it's hard at all. You only need to do 3 things:

- make your own meals
OR
- read the ingredients of the prepared and processed food you buy
OR
- don't eat out so often

You don't have to be super vigilant. Just put in a small amount of effort.

Why do people need to be nasty about everything. It would be nice if labels were easier to read of if they had to be more explicit about added sugars. I personally would love to see Amy sugar or sugar substitute to have to be on the front of the label in large font. I struggle to read some labels and with all the various forms of sugars and sweeteners. So it would be nice if it was easier.

Labels do include sugar and added sugar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The FDA sucks. Europe is so much better at regulating this, which is why Europeans are thinner and healthier, and the majority of Americans are overweight at best. Like no digit sizing should exist.

^double digit Size 12 and beyond

So all those "double digit" losers should just go naked until they lose weight and can wear single digit sized clothing? Or do you think they should just be done away with/vanish? which one is it, I need to know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one is forcing people to consume sugar.

No, but you have to be awfully vigilant to avoid it.

No you don’t. All you have to do is turn the product over and read a label.

When eating premade food, like take out/restaurant/bakery assume the worst with regards to added sugar and you will be correct.

Yeah I don't understand how it's hard at all. You only need to do 3 things:

- make your own meals
OR
- read the ingredients of the prepared and processed food you buy
OR
- don't eat out so often

You don't have to be super vigilant. Just put in a small amount of effort.

Why do people need to be nasty about everything. It would be nice if labels were easier to read of if they had to be more explicit about added sugars. I personally would love to see Amy sugar or sugar substitute to have to be on the front of the label in large font. I struggle to read some labels and with all the various forms of sugars and sweeteners. So it would be nice if it was easier.

I don't understand - nobody's being nasty. You have to try to do a little bit of the work yourself - that's normal. Food labels already have an "added sugar" clarification. See it below. The nutritional label in this example has 23 grams of added sugar, which is very significant. The 2 natural sugars (total minus added) is not a concern.

Natural sugars, like those in fruit and vegetables, are nothing to be worried about.

Ultimately it sounds like you need to start making some meals yourself. Then you have total, very easy control.

Notice the trickiness inherent in the added sugars labeling, however. The serving is measured in ounces, but the sugars are mentioned in grams - a measurement that many Americans will not process as readily as they would ounces.

So if this label depicted that there are .8 ounces of added sugars, the consumer could more readily process that this food product is basically 1/8 SUGAR.

This is done on purpose, of course. The food industry is not stupid and yes, they are crafty just like Big Tobacco was. They want you to crave and purchase these processed foods which are sugar laden to keep you craving them - they have no incentive to help you recognize your sugar addiction and to reject foods that are laden with it.

There are many doctors who are on the forefront of trying to tackle the sugar problem in the processed food industry, because the neuroscience and microbiome studies have clearly established that sugar is just not healthful and it is the driver of obesity, not fat and not healthy carbs (fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds). We have to reform the food industry or we will continue to see declining life expectancy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one is forcing people to consume sugar.

No, but you have to be awfully vigilant to avoid it.

No you don’t. All you have to do is turn the product over and read a label.

When eating premade food, like take out/restaurant/bakery assume the worst with regards to added sugar and you will be correct.

Yeah I don't understand how it's hard at all. You only need to do 3 things:

- make your own meals
OR
- read the ingredients of the prepared and processed food you buy
OR
- don't eat out so often

You don't have to be super vigilant. Just put in a small amount of effort.

Why do people need to be nasty about everything. It would be nice if labels were easier to read of if they had to be more explicit about added sugars. I personally would love to see Amy sugar or sugar substitute to have to be on the front of the label in large font. I struggle to read some labels and with all the various forms of sugars and sweeteners. So it would be nice if it was easier.

I don't understand - nobody's being nasty. You have to try to do a little bit of the work yourself - that's normal. Food labels already have an "added sugar" clarification. See it below. The nutritional label in this example has 23 grams of added sugar, which is very significant. The 2 natural sugars (total minus added) is not a concern.

Natural sugars, like those in fruit and vegetables, are nothing to be worried about.

Ultimately it sounds like you need to start making some meals yourself. Then you have total, very easy control.

That looks like a Snackwell's "Nutrition" label. So disgusting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Go look at any nutrition label on a packages food. Have you ever noticed that the “added sugar” line is the only only line that doesn’t have a corresponding “percentage of daily value?”

You can thank the sugar lobby for that. They are very powerful. No one would want to see that every candy bar or cereal is 2500% the daily value of added sugar. They don’t care about your health. They just want to make money.

This post is so dumb is must be troll. Look two posts up for a label that shows exactly like what you say doesn’t exist.

BTW, it’s 50g/day of added sugar for RDA.

Or perhaps you are this dumb. How much TikTok are you watching these days for nutrition advice?

Wow, you are a jerk. I was wrong that the label was recently amended to add that fact but there was a long history of this being the case if you had taken time to educate yourself before spewing your vitriol.

https://medium.com/writers-blokke/the-raw-story-behind-sugars-omission-as-a-percentage-of-daily-value-from-nutrition-labels-bd5d4632a0b5

Next time do your own research before being so wrong. The thread is about the present day. Turns out the FDA did something about added sugar. I’m sure it’s still a big conspiracy. Or people don’t care and won’t invest their own to time educating themselves about what they are putting in their bodies.

Go buy a tinfoil hat

Go be a tw@t somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there anything they can do about added sugars to improve nation's overall health and decrease stress on healthcare caused by sugar driven problems?

There's a lot they could do, if having a healthy population were actually the goal. But you have to have crappy food so people can have crappy health so they keep their crappy job for the crappy health insurance they use at the crappy health care which is about neither.

The US doesn't care about the health of its people.

Where does the Illuminati fit into all of this?

Right next to your head up your ass, pp. Feckoff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one is forcing people to consume sugar.

No, but you have to be awfully vigilant to avoid it.

No you don’t. All you have to do is turn the product over and read a label.

When eating premade food, like take out/restaurant/bakery assume the worst with regards to added sugar and you will be correct.

Yeah I don't understand how it's hard at all. You only need to do 3 things:

- make your own meals
OR
- read the ingredients of the prepared and processed food you buy
OR
- don't eat out so often

You don't have to be super vigilant. Just put in a small amount of effort.

Why do people need to be nasty about everything. It would be nice if labels were easier to read of if they had to be more explicit about added sugars. I personally would love to see Amy sugar or sugar substitute to have to be on the front of the label in large font. I struggle to read some labels and with all the various forms of sugars and sweeteners. So it would be nice if it was easier.

I don't understand - nobody's being nasty. You have to try to do a little bit of the work yourself - that's normal. Food labels already have an "added sugar" clarification. See it below. The nutritional label in this example has 23 grams of added sugar, which is very significant. The 2 natural sugars (total minus added) is not a concern.

Natural sugars, like those in fruit and vegetables, are nothing to be worried about.

Ultimately it sounds like you need to start making some meals yourself. Then you have total, very easy control.

But something like 100% juice is all natural sugar, and it’s still sugar. Ask anyone with diabetes. Besides that, a product with refined carbs might show 0 sugars on the label, but it is still not that good for you and will act like a high sugar product once it’s digested..

Ok…that isn’t the topic. It is literally asking about the FDA banning ADDED sugars. The FDA isn’t going to ban fruit and white flour