RE: Should Governments Be Able To Institute a “Fat Tax” ?

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Should Governments Be Able To Institute a “Fat Tax” ?

in health •  8 years ago 

Very perceptive to note that many people use food as a substitute for other things that are missing in their life, such as relationships, a sense of accomplishment/purpose, etc.

As Fraiser Crane once asked a caller who was struggling with food issues, "What part of you is not being fed?"

However, there is an aspect that was not mentioned - which is high fructose corn syrup, added to many processed food products. The is a direct parallel between the use HFC and obesity rates. Here's a graph from Diabetes Daily :

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Right. That stuff is in soooo many products. A little won't kill you, but it's not something that occurs in nature and it's just so hard to avoid.