Interesting points! It’s amazing how much misinformation is out there. 'Health and Beauty Mastery' by Julian Bannett totally changed my perspective on what we’re told about health and wellness. Highly recommend for anyone who wants the full story!
There's a big difference between what scientific procedures prove, and what scientific organizations tell us. Nobody else but a multi-Gigadollar-per-year industry gets the special privilege of covering up facts just to bail out their profit margins.
There's such a strong connection between food and psychology, so yeah if you want to manipulate ANYONE the food is what to go for. If we cared about each other, then nutrition & body science would be a core part of school curriculums.
As long as food corporations are allowed to walk a gray line of manipulating data into their favor, nothing will change. The sugar industry didn't do anything wrong by finding another scapegoat. They act in their own self interest, bottom line, and stock price. Do you think politicians will change anything when they are also manipulated by sugar lobbyist that support these large corporations.
The ones with the most money, that have more money than they can ever spend, just want control. They can try to spin that they are acting in the good of people, yet the have a self serving interest.
This is so sad... my wife works in a kindergarten here in South Korea, and not just hers but all kindergarten in the country have dedicated cooks for healthy fresh meals every day, they get fresh ingredients on a daily basis. Kids should be protected....there is something so disgusting about the government and food corporations in america...
Whatever FDA says I try to avoid it. I found myself in this rabbit hole of so many industry lies when I read "The 23 Former Doctor Truths". Its no wonder why Doctor left her career.
How is that making even more money right now though? “We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective.” ― I thought Kurt Vonnegut but, I am finding Donella H. Meadows
It's ridiculous what they server for breakfast in schools. You've got kids starting the day eating coco puffs with chocolate milk, poptarts, or syrup filled pre-packaged pancakes. It's crazy.
There are special interests who don't even want children well-nourished in school. If they're impoverished or poorly-fed as children, their chances of developing critical thinking skills descends, and they become easier prey for industries who use cheap wages and deplorable working conditions as a business model.
That's horrible. Isn't that food program run through USDA? I recall reading an article (may have been a video) a man that worked at USDA had concerns over a school lunch program they were reviewing. He spoke up & I believe he was fired. USDA was getting kickbacks from the company that wanted the contract. Wish I could recall more about it.
I mean, you could also just have most kids eating nothing until lunch. Then only the least nutritious possible item on their plate… then coming home ravenous, eating everything in the house, while bewailing the horror of school food. How long do you think it would take for parents to demand feeding kids food they will actually eat? (I preferred to go hungry and miss out on ice cream rather than eat spinach or beets. Think about that for a moment.)
Lobbying is a constitutionally protected process. "Right to Petition." We all just need to lobby better. The best response to speech and lobbying you don't like is to be a better speaker and lobbyist.
Yeahhh it is goofy how like, I have followed some leftist streamers since that started being a thing, and Citizens United and endemic corruption are never-mentioned subjects, despite being the most crucial, most important to understand flaws in our system
@@youtrickube1475Why the hell would you infer that from what he said lol? Thats like saying "Its time for serious criminal charges for congressmen" and then asking "So every cop and lawyer goes to jail too?" Its a nonsensical tactic to make the dude's argument seem like it's steered at someone it's not and you should know better after 7th grade 🙄
YES, the idea that corporations have every themselves been considered their own singular person is totally fucking absurd. And I feel like when you tell people corporations are legally considered people, they're like "Oh ok" like no, not ok. Thats totally fucking absurd. Some of them literally are comprised of hundreds of thousands of employees around the globe, they're not "associates" theyre part of the corporation 🤦♂️
In 1993 in my Chicagoland high school McDonald’s became available to purchase in our cafeteria. 31 years ago. Then I went to college and got a degree in natural resource management aka common sense. I learned that the world is completely fucked do to corporate interference in all aspects of society. Nothing has gotten better. NOTHING
I've also heard that one children's hospital in Indiana used to have a McDonald's location in-house. With Ray Kroc having empowered McDonald's via neighboring Illinois, and Indy's habits as the Midwest's South, it wasn't the biggest surprise in the world, but it was a foul stain on children's health care and the history thereof.
Western civilization saving itself isn't something that's in the cards.... sure, we should always try. And maybe I am just very wrong. But I think the very best we can hope for, is that we don't enter a dark age when things do inevitably fall to pieces, that we don't have to start over from square one, that when the world becomes largely uninhabitable and the few of us lucky enough to be wherever happen to survive, that we carry forward some of our technology and culture, and hopefully learn from the mistakes we're mired in now
They put so many things like this in our food as well. Society is being lied so much! I read "The 23 Former Doctor Truths" by Lauren Clark. Its fascinating how she talks about Industry.
A video encompassing everything wrong about big sugar would have to be a 3 part series, 2 hours per episode at least. That's how bad it is. Edit: I meant how bad big sugar is. Kinda sounded like I meant this video was bad, which it's not 🙂
I tried to limit my kids exposure to sugar as they were growing up. My son just had his 40th birthday. When he was 7, he woke up to find me watching a documentary about child labor on the sugar plantations. Many of the children in the documentary were his age. At the end of the film, they listed companies that obtained their sugar from these plantations. He was vigilant about boycotting those companies for a few months. With the exception of a brief period in high school where he drank Dr Pepper, he doesn’t eat sugary foods or processed foods. It’s important to get them on a good nutritional track early.
@@auviance222 They are? Meat isn't actually carcinogenic, that was misquoted pop science like the whole "brain develops fully at 25" misinfo. And eggs are chock full of nutrients - any cholesterol you eat, your body ramps down production of it. We would've been seeing record cases of heart disease and prediabetes in any meaningful fashion while we were eating meat and eggs more than food-like products we consume now if meat and eggs weren't healthy. It's the sugars and PUFAs that'll get you. You know, the oils treated with hexane and meant to be used as industrial lubricants😂
@@auviance222 It depends on the source. From my great grandparents on down, my family has had a tradition of eating mostly organic, naturally raised food. And yes, that included some meat. I personally never eat eggs because they make me nauseous. I rarely eat meat because the only meat that I am willing to eat is very expensive. I rarely have dairy with the exceptional of butter from organic, pasture raised cows. We try to support local organic farmers and ranchers whenever possible. I do have a small, indoor hydroponic system where I grow some fresh produce year round. So perhaps the next time you decide to unleash your judgemental and uninformed comments on a stranger, hopefully you will consider showing some restraint. Otherwise, you probably will just end up making a fool out of yourself, again.
@@FGM013same. I started making small changes weekly long ago and now if I eat the mass produced stuff not only does it have little taste, it also tastes weird 💜
She's absolutely right about the palate getting used to increased sweetness. That's part of the reason sweet foods keep increasing their sugar content over the years. I quit consuming any sugar for about 8 months, and when I gradually added a little back to my diet I had to bake my own desserts with 1/3 as much sugar. Every pre-made treat tasted waaaaay to sickeningly sweet. Still does. It's a good way to overcome a sugar addiction, but it's hard to do! I had massive withdrawal cravings.
Sugar is so insanely addictive. I've been prescribed a variety of controlled medications that are addictive, including Adderall, but nothing even comes close to the addictiveness of sugar. As an adult, I learned to avoid sugar-added foods, which cured my "bad teeth." It really gives you a new perspective when you've "detoxed" from sugar and try a treat you used to eat all the time.
Yeah I went from extreme sweet tooth to now consuming almost zero sugar. I don't ever even desire desserts and usually turn them down. They taste almost disgustingly sweet
Almost 2 years ago I was diagosed as pre-diabetic, my doctor said I needed to lose weight ASAP, I was also taking medication for high cholesterol. My wife and I researched diets and decided to follow Keto guidelines and so we cut down (dramatically) on sugar, low quality carbs (cheap bread, donuts, etc because they are FULL of sugar) and UPF (again full of full of sugar, carbs and chemicals). We went to a natural, low processed food, low carb, low sugar diet and between us we've lost over 25 kilos and six months later I did my bloods, my doctor was shocked that not only am I no longer prediabetic, but my cholesterol levels are also back to normal. People eat this big food rubbish, gain lots of weight, have horrible cholesterol, become diabetics, then big pharma kicks in with the prescription medicines and people are told it's because people are lazy and don't excersise or because it's genetic. We're never going back!
In the 00-Agents' Decade, many fast food chains added salads and other leaner options to their menus, but the other half of the time, they were introducing bigger, more fat-laden burgers and more potent desserts. I fear that United Staters have had those fatty foods and sugars marketed into their personal identities. Many of the commercials don't present them as just the newest dish, but as cultural symbols.
Most recent stats from a few years ago indicate 13% of Americans are full blown diabetic and another 37% are pre-diabetic. Probably worse now, given the trend. We're even seeing children with hbA1C in the diabetic range now. They're addicted and their lifespan, healthspan, and quality of life are all irrevocably impacted before they're even old enough to start making their own food choices. This country has sacrificed its soul upon the altar of corporate greed
I'm just shocked that people don't realize that you are nothing more than a piggy bank to coorperations. FDA is a scam to make you fat and buy sugar, school lunch prgrams are a scam to make your kids fat and subsidise more sugar. Now you're unhealthy for life so the Healthcare industry can start mikling every dime out of you while slowly killing you and never actually curing anything. The United States FDA and regulatory comissions are a complete joke feeding us poison.
Yes most Americans eat too much processed foods including sugary food like products however they also are among the highest consumers per capita of animal products
If they were to try a vegan diet, they could probably reverse much of that, but they are just as addicted to animal foods. Addiction is brutal, but can be overcome. I'm speaking from experience
I've recently learned that maltodextrin, which is a modified glucose, and is in almost all processed food now, has a higher glycemic index than table sugar, but it is not included under "added sugars" on nutrition labels. This is because it has no calories, and is considered a "starch," so it is just included in the over-all carb count. The problem with this is that it affects your insulin levels even worse than strait table sugar, when you are under the impression that you are taking in no sugar. The food industry is getting more and more devious!
So dumb, that's just sugar industry propaganda. I mean how dumb does someone have to be to come here and post sugar industry propaganda on a video about sugar industry propaganda. Every single study ever done has shown modern artificial sweeteners to be safe in amounts that are possible to consume. Yeah, boy, i'm aware some studies glorify a cancer risk, probably funded by sugar industry, because you read the details beyond the headline and you would have to drink like 100 cans of soda every day for decades to have an elevated risk.
I used to drink a 16oz can of Rockstar Energy drink every morning. At this same time I was going in 5 days a week for rTMS treatments (for those who don't know, its for treatment resistant depression) in the afternoon, and they would check my heart rate before every treatment. The medical staff were initially concerned with my heart rate consistently being a bit over 100 bpm, then I decided that I would switch to sugar free Rockstar energy drinks and they found my resting heart rate has actually increased to around 110 bpm. At the time, I was still very addicted to them, so I switched back to the regular Rockstar. I drank them once or twice daily from the time I was 15 years old until I was 23.
Dextrose is another one to look out for; almost as bad as Maltodextrin. I've been on keto for 6.5 years, if I see maltodextrin or dextrose in the ingredients, even if it is low carb, I don't buy it.
As an Australian... I wish we had school lunches. As a teacher in a low socio-economic school i had a freezer full of sandwiches made and paid for by the teachers for kids who couldn't bring lunch. Breakfast in the morning was made by a group of nannas and paid for local businesses. Now... why would local businesses pay for school lunches? In a small community, kids who go to school aren't bored... and they don't break into stores. If a kid is hungry at home, they know they can go to school to get a meal. School breakfast and school lunches considerably increased attendance... and of course we had more learning because kids had the energy to do so. Despite being the richest country in the world per capita, our right and centre left (aka... right) governments have always said we can't afford school lunches. Of course they ignore all the evidence saying healthy school lunches pay for themselves in future outcomes. That would mean looking past their own term in office.
BIG Thanks to you and those others teachers for having those kids’ backs. How can a kid focus in school when their stomach is grumbling? Hugs from Brooklyn, US.
Despite what many think, school lunches weren't started out of charity. It was implemented by the military under emergency order to ensure soldiers when there was an entire generation of malnourished children after the Dust Bowl/Great Depression. It is prison grade food. And when we already have a processed food problem, many parents fight with their kids to bring healthy food from home, but because of peer pressure or temptation has the kids buying at school anyways. Our district has snack or break in the morning and the school sells snacks, and it is an entire store of junk and sugar. American school systems have way more corporate predation than people suspect.
(Aussie aswell) sugarcane crops are also a bit of a sign of empire in decline because it is a crop that handles higher salinity and so it's usually a sign that your soil is being spent as the sodium content builds from irrigation, evaporation etc and other more salinity sensitive crops won't grow. The reason the Egyptian empire lasted so long is because of constant fresh top soil washing up through the Nile Delta every flood season. Spent farming soil may have collapsed more empires than we know.
I know people say nicotine or caffeine are the most addictive thing but I think it’s legit sugar. It certainly is harder to avoid than those because it’s in almost everything. And even with the sugar alternatives, they’re just a methadone.
I’ve discovered that my daughter has insulin hypersensitivity. She was having violent meltdowns (she’s also autistic). She brought home a yogurt in her lunch bag and it had 42 grams of sugar. I’ve requested that they feed her no sugar but it’s still happening on a regular basis (even with a doctors note) This crap is dangerous.
Eating healthy is cheap, I grew up in Turkey but still poor people eat the healthiest. It takes effort and preparation to cook which is why Americans choose lazy options and then complain. I lived in US shortly, rice and vegetables, beans etc are cheap. Potatoes are cheap. People need to cook these basics along with salads. Buy bulk and meal prep. They need to teach nutrition at schools immediately.
@thegalhorowitz Actually, here our unhealthy foods are the most accessible for the way our lifestyles have to work. A lot of people really unfortunately don't have a choice, we as the consumer are not the problem. The people raising the price of fresh produce and adding more junk to the shelves are to blame. Yes potatoes and rice exist, but having a carb heavy foods is really bad for you too.
@@thegalhorowitzEating a salad made yourself with purchased ingredients costs 3$ eating one at a restaurant with extremely similar ingredients costs about 20$. Laziness or lack of time from working too much is definitely a bigger problem than the 'cost' of healthy food. I live in the USA.
I cut out soda and I lost 80 lbs. I took my elderly mother off sugar and her UTI issues never occurred again, and is off all her medication. Like Big OIl, they have done the research and found out the facts addiction sells.
I have friends who drink a lot of soda but say they want to lose weight. I always suggest at least starting with stopping soda consumption, though few actually go through with that.
@@Ozzianmanthey are also probiotic sodas like Poppi: 25 calories per can 4 g of sugar with the probiotics mixed in. Those are a healthier alternative when you want that soda fix
I used to get terrible stomach aches as a kid. Probably had at least a six pack of it each day. As soon as I quit drinking all the soda, the stomach issues all went away. I've never gone back to drinking any of it. More recently I reduced all carbs daily to less than 30g daily. Dropped 30 pounds within two months just from reducing that. This shit is literally killing us and keeping us sick. If you want to tackle obesity and other chronic inflammation related issues, cut out the gratuitous amounts sugar you eat in a day. It's pretty amazing how much better you can start to feel.
This has bothered me so much since I found out about it and finally realized how bad it is. Those people are truly evil who would basically condemn so many children to a life addicted to sugar.
I backed WAY off sugar product 6 months ago, lost 15 pounds immediately and my stomach feels AWESOME now. Don't wait for government to do their job, cut the cord now, you can do it.
Unfortunately all poor people can afford is the sugar packed 💩. We need to demand government subsidize healthy food (like produce), especially for those on food stamps.
True, but I'm poor and I cut drinking any kind of sugary drinks out of my life in my early 20s, just drink water and unsweetened tea now. That change alone reset my taste buds and eating other sugary foods became too much for me. I still like a sweet treat every once in awhile though, just not like I did when I was younger. I can see why these companies are so scared of small changes especially when it comes to children's diets.
A fun fact about this - most of the parent companies behind the old bliss-point research were also former parts of The American Tobacco Company, the tobacco monopoly of the late 1800's into the early 1900's.
Generally a wise rule of thumb though this is one of those rare instances where the causality seems to go the other way as the sugar industry was active with disinformation before Regan politically came to power. Still I have no doubt Regan made it worse and even pure unadulterated evil had to get their inspiration from somewhere.
It is really how funny looking into how this horrible thing came to be in America and just it started with Reagan. It's genuinely comical how often it happens.
Schools budgets cut so they cant afford fresh food or the people to cook it, forced into processed sugary foods, hmmmmm, almost like it was all done on purpose
My son has free breakfast at school, but it's fruit loops and chocolate milk. He probably still gets it at school, but I have since made certain to feed him breakfast before school, hoping it makes an impact. Blows my mind we feed kids sugar piles first thing in the morning and then expect them to learn.
I've generally avoided most sugary things (like, almost never having a soda) but a year ago during my yearly bloodwork checkup, my doctor noted my sugar levels were high enough to be a concern. So I started paying closer attention to what I was buying at the store...and every damn thing has sugar added when it's not necessary. It's actually a challenge to avoid it. Thankfully I did manage to lower the blood levels and my doctor was less concerned, but it was eye opening how ubiquitous it really is. These companies are not entitled to eternal profit at the expense of our health.
I love what the nutritionist says toward the end, policy makers need to demand oversight on where the wee tithe of government spending for lunches goes. Subsidize local food producers and pay for skilled chefs to prepare healthy, fresh foods.
won't make a difference honestly. even if they have 1 healthy meal a day Big Sugar has them SORROUNDED!!!! They literally have to either eat sugar or starve. it's next to impossible otherwise
@@augustuscaeser8939 well not as long as you're eating whole foods ect. The sugar intake would be controlled. I only drink sparkling water, kombucha and coffee. So while it's not great it's not coka cola bottles.
@@grayj7441 You do know that myth is bogus right? Wolves in the wild form family units and the scientists originally related to the study that started the entire alpha beta nonsense have distanced themselves from it.
It's all about consumer throughput, which is why they're after the kids. Once you're obese, diabetic and sickly, you're Big Pharma's cow to milk. Big Sugar want you while you're young, impressionable, growing and hungry.
If I was a bad person I could make millions today, scam everyone, then when the consequences of my actions become apparent, I will be dead! Ta da!!!! I will get to live in luxury, and those suckers in the future will pay for it! Perfect crime.
Sugar and corn syrup doesn’t belong in human food supply. I like how Chile made the industry mark packaging in a way to discourage people from buying food stuff with superfluous ingredients like sugar
My ex was addicted to Mountain Dew because he had terrible allergies and the meds made him sleepy but coffee was yucky (I know). At the age of 40 the dentist came out and said all his teeth were shaped like dishes because of the consistent sugar wash.
@@kennyholmes5196Depends on the type. Black tea, especially Assam, is on the higher end. Matcha also provides a good energy boost, but normal green tea tends to be half the amount of caffeine.
What a horrible doctor to not know that sugar is neutral pH therefore has no effect on teeth. What becomes a problem is if you have bacteria in your mouth that feeds on sugar and you let them do their thing repeatedly for hours everyday, yeah, can be an issue. Not if you have good dental hygiene. Mt Dew screws you teeth because of all the other ingredients in it. Look at the fricking label, a lot of those things literally have ACID in their name. Use your brain god damnit.
I shared it to my socials. With the heading “Sugar is killing us”. I hope at least my family sees it. They are very addicted and don’t think it’s a problem.
Most days of the week I am not strong enough to watch through your videos, so I’ll come back when I’m ready. This is what real journalism FEELS like. To inspire such emotion is what every news outlet should aspire to. Thank you more perfect union for keeping it raw and real.
I was once a sweet tooth. My nickname was "Mattman the candy man" in high school, because i was always eating that stuff. But now i eat almost no sugar and never crave it at all. I don't usually even eat dessert when offered. Change is possible! Your palate will adjust within weeks and you'll never need so much sugar again!
this is the exact same action plan that big oil companies use to cram industry propaganda into children's education nationally and worldwide... fascinating
Yep The Sugar industry was the pioneer of this type of disinformation and defamation/harassment campaign which was later adopted by t the fossil fuel industry after the saw the levels of success the sugar industry had at suppressing unwanted scientific facts that hinder their profit margins. Why innovate when you can sow doubt through disinformation and lobby politicians to inaction? The Tobacco industry is another big user of this strategy though there at least sustained prolonged public outcry was eventually able to overcome the industry's influence enough to pass some legislation but even there the disinformation campaigns have had remarkable success at fighting a clear unambiguous scientific consensus. There is a book on the subject known as Merchants of doubt which focuses on the multibillion dollar corporate disinformation and lobbying industry which has been built up to silence and obfuscate inconvenient scientific evidence which would undermine profit margins.
Interesting that you should say that. Back in the mid 1970's I worked for the USAF at their base in Berlin and I can remember how gorgeous and sweet and moorish their food and drinks were compared to German or English fare. I stayed with USAF for about 18 months and put on two stone in weight - as soon as I came back to the UK and our grim diet I lost it thankfully.
My top fear is that WAL-MART doesn't want children to be better-fed or well-equipped for school, because the worse students do, the more likely WAL-MART can have a monopoly on their labor, which they'd lowball them for. Superemployers like WAL-MART have that as an essential plank of their business model.
The oil industry is marketing plastic as recyclable and marketing themselves as becoming more sustainable - to children, today. It should be illegal, not just because it is false advertising, but also for the same reason laws against tobacco ads aimed at children were made illegal - it is ultimately bad for them.
I'm so glad my dad as a scientist ignored corporate marketing and actually started me early on fresh fruits and vegetables. I can't stomach junk food most of the time it makes me physically sick and I'd rather go eat something healthy.
When I quit drinking and smoking weed I started eating a lot more sugar, something my friends have related to, and (like 1am baking cookies, finished by morning a lot) I started to feel baseline worse than I did with substance abuse. Rapid weight gain, teeth sensitivity, brain fog, sleep disruption. Luckily when I cut back on sugar my gut microbiome responds pretty quickly in ceasing those signals that affect impulse control (and vice versa when I increase sugar intake again), but it's like damn, regulate This. Tax This.
These marketing executives have NO business sense at all and are freaking cowards! If they had business sense they would capitalize on PROVIDING healthy food and being the first & best to do it! They would priotizing being the top provider of actually healthy food instead of beating the dead horse that is sugar. Just like if energy companies had any business sense they would capitalizing on SUSTAINABLE energy sources like solar, wind, water, even garbage to energy instead of beating everything out of the dead horse that is oil. These failures and cowards are bad for business, bad for profits, bad for humanity. All the best business decisions are SUSTAINABLE. Forcing sugar, cigarettes, fake food, etc are NOT sustainable. Killing your customers on purpose is NEVER a good business strategy ever. These executives all need to be replaced with people who have actual business sense, sustainable business practices and long term vision.
Food lunch debt shouldn't even be a thing. It's disgusting that children can't even have a balanced meal due to the financial instability. School lunches should be subsidized especially in low-incomed areas. I had to pay about $2 for my school lunch everyday in high school. According to the school district my mom made too much for us to qualify for subsidize school lunches.
While valuable, this is information that has been out for a while. American citizens need to use their wallets as well as their ballots for healthier environments in the United States. Thanks 🇺🇸❤️
@@Gfish17try olipop, poppi, liquid death, or spindrift. The first two taste like soda and are good for your gut. The second two are flavored sparkling water that have good ingredients. :)
Same bro, same. Trying to lose 22 lbs. I was down to 10 left from 30, but now I'm back at 22. Sugar is the number 1 getting in the way. I really need an incredible amount of self-control to avoid sugar. It's not enough that sugary foods are widely available, but now foods have the most absurd amounts of sugar. 40g in a big cup large reeses cup pack. 27-38g in a pint if chocolate milk. It's hard to stay away from sugar, and extra hard to have a reasonable amount if you have some at all.
@@PlazDreamweaver@PlazDreamweaver I have had a lifelong sugar addiction and have tried to diet it since I was 6. Imagine that... 6!. A lifetime of yo yo weight loss and gain. 50 lbs every year. Avoided fat all my life, and even when I gave up sugar, I didn't realize the key was eating fat to stay satiated. Did Keto over 3 years ago and lost 60 lbs. I've kept my weight off since. I won't touch sugar.
@@PlazDreamweaverIt might help to find replacements or set some rules. My personal rule is to not buy any candy or sweets that I don’t put make from scratch. Plus I can control how much is made and even how much sugar goes in. Right now I have some little cookies I made that aren’t super sweet and made for dipping in coffee. 1-2 is usually enough of a treat for the day. Office treats have made my rule more complicated though.
Knowledge is power. That's why lobbyist exist to control the narrative on what is healthy and what is not. Major corporations have long had their hands on the levers of power that guide society and truthful information. Politicians and people at the top of these corporations conspire to this end. Often times you wonder why politicians vote against the interest of their constituents. Money and power is their focus and who cares if there is harm to the general public. This system of things is twisted and immorally grotesque. That is why very soon this system will come to its end - Dan 2:44.
I wish they could have lobbied harder. I miss my sugary products before the sugar tax 😂 Also btw this whole butter vs margerine thing is pretty funny because margerine is healthier than butter haha Everything said to be bad of margerine are under 1g 😂
Sugar companies flooded the market with cheap sugar products after the USA 'liberated' Spanish speaking countries from Spain and implanted US business interests in countries like Puerto Rico, forcing people to work for slave wages under horrendous conditions building an American sugar empire. Poverty and hunger skyrocketed there while obesity and diabetes skyrocketed here. We'd still have sugar if America had kept it's word and left those countries independent to conduct trade on their own behalf; it just wouldn't have been so cheap that it was practically free and used in massive quantities as an unhealthy and unnecessary additive in practically everything. It's really true that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, because borders mean nothing to the rich and powerful. People, ALL people, are just disposable resources to them.
@@DrawinskyMoon Don't think of it as a tax, think of it as them paying for the harm they do. Just like gas taxes go to road maintenance. Externalities can be priced into the market. Taxes are much simpler than harm markets like the carbon credit market.
THANK YOU more perfect union for picking up on and covering this story. It's a huge story that is still kept very quiet even though it is there plain to see if you look and has been for years.
It's unfortunate to hear that, but here are some that I have. If it's something like soda, maybe you can try not buying soda or keeping any in your house, so you can't drink any even when you want to. Maybe try to replace that sweet craving for some other flavor, like savory (as long as you keep salt levels under control). That's just an idea. Some good advice I heard was to basically avoid the interior isles of grocery stores because that is where all the processed stuff is, and it's generally pretty true. If you never pass by it, you won't be tempted to by it as severely. Maybe you could (and or should) get professional help from a dietician/nutritionist if you could afford it or some other professional trained in dealing with cases of addiction. Cooking for yourself if you have the time is the best way to control what food you eat, and it's generally much healthier than buying anything highly processed because it avoids all the added sugars, preservatives, etc. The difficult part for me is spending the time doing it. Meal prepping actually helps with that because one cooking session yields 4 or 5 or so servings of a particular meal. These are just ideas of course. The specifics are determined by your exact situation.
Wean yourself off it slowly, this requires diligence, rigorous honesty, and patience, but it's more than achievable. Try calculating your sugar intake daily (grams or even just sevings) with just sweets/sugary drinks. Slowly reduce sweets/soda little by little each day. Then, once you're feeling OK with that (and there will be cravings but if you ride it out slowly, they will be minimal) then start cutting out added sugars, replace those with fruit, some very minimal honey, and once added sugars are off your plate start weaning off the honey, calm the cravings with fruit (frozen banana and cherries are awesome for this) Expect this to take a month or two. And flush your system with water (don't be extreme about it though) and get as much sleep as you reasonably can. Sleep deprivation triggers sugar cravings like crazy. If you go backwards, *do not beat yourself up for it* and try not to be like "ah, fk it, might as well get in a good sugar binge now since I already screwed up" just get back on track (even if you ultimately give in to a sugar binge at any point, get rught back on track, no beating yoursdlf up allowed because you are doing a hard fking thing d@mmit) maybe slow down on weaning a little bit if you cave, but get right back on moving forward, little by little. Even cutting back on any level is an amazing accomplishment, so don't forget to remind yourself how far you've come during the process. It also helps to associate eating sugar with pain (like if you have a bad back or inflammatory issues etc...) as we've been conditioned to blame our pain (emitional and physical) on ourselves or anything else other than sugar) Remind yourself that if you do give into a craving, you'll only crave even more in 2 hours or so. While you can get through it, reactivated cravings become a psychological battle as they'll lie to you, trying to convince you that you've always felt this way and will continue to feel this way, so it's hopeless and you should just give up. Also, the anxiety, low points you probably feel every day, that's likely sugar withdrawal, and if youre addicted daily, youre experiencing withdrawal anyway, so you might as well get your freedom from it instead of shacking yourself even more to this horror that's slow kilingus all. . Anyway, that's a lot, but that's how I did it.
Tbh once I found out the truth of alcohol, sugar And the rest of the garbage we are served that was enough for me to stop using all of it point blank that very second.
My suggestion for soda is to look for flavored fizz. If it’s the texture you like buy a case of spindrift and sweeten it yourself with honey, agave or maple syrup. Continue that until you can lower the sugar content down to nothing. As for baked goods, look for organic brands that have few ingredients in them. Rule of thumb for buying packaged food, if you can’t pronounce the ingredient it shouldn’t be in your body.
I'm just so tired of people being evil. Like, it's not hard to _not_ be evil. I will say, though, that for me at least, the "get 'em while they're kids" tactic didn't work. I loved things sugar-bomb type snacks when I was a kid, but I hate them as an adult. Every time I try to go back a childhood favorite like Poptarts or Gushers or something, as an adult I'm just disgusted by it. I assumed adults simply grew out of liking sweet things, but I guess not everyone does?
I see one major problem with sugar taxes. As this video states, ‘sweet tooths’ are a thing, created by a manipulation of our sense of how much sweetness we need. Where implemented, sugar taxes have been avoided by companies switching to artificial sweeteners - which was the point of the tax. But because they don’t reduce the sweetness of the products, in fact often they make them sweeter, they are still manipulating people into having a sweet tooth, and thus being more likely to pick sweet options, whether artificially sweetened or sweetened with sugar.
2002-2003 I couldn’t use my reduced lunch money on my card at the student store but damn if they didn’t have Cheetos and Snapple apple available in the actual lunch line and I could waste my reduced lunch money on full priced junk.
I love how they demonize "added sugar", but have no issue with plain old sugar in foods like grapes, oatmeal orange juice and pasta which is all sugar.
Should definitely look into the vegetable oil industry too. A lot of processed foods these days are ladened with added vegetable oils, to the point where 700 calories of your daily intake is just oils. (Not sure if that's fully accurate, that's off my memory)
The worst part is how hateful sugar makes you. I just drank an all-natural ginger beer because I've never had one and happened upon them at Aldi when looking for things I needed that they didn't carry. I felt compelled to make the purchase so as not to leave the store empty handed... "Made with pure cane sugar" That's usually better, in my experience, than artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup. However, having not had soda in a long while, I felt the effects of it instantly and have been in a very combative mood ever since. Live and learn 🤷🏽
Having lived in another country other than the USA before I was 10 years old I was taught that soda pop was not food. When I (as a young man) had very little money to buy food in my teenage years I always ordered water as a beverage and spent my scarce funds on only food. My friends spent almost twice as much money and and got more sugar and less real food. There is a lesson to be learned by anyone who is lacking funds, buy only the real food that you need and don't waste your money on things that are bad for you!
I also really love the corporate advertising in the literal classrooms our children are in. Saw C is for Coke on one of their learning posters in a pre-school classroom.... And we know that advertising to children is waaaaay more effective than it is to adults.... America, #1 at a whole bunch of screwing ourselves over for some rich jackass to afford a 2nd yacht.
Interesting points! It’s amazing how much misinformation is out there. 'Health and Beauty Mastery' by Julian Bannett totally changed my perspective on what we’re told about health and wellness. Highly recommend for anyone who wants the full story!
I got it, truly a good book
It’s troubling how easily and often food and nutrition science is manipulated for desired results.
I'd say it's more than troubling. Because it's manipulative & deceptive, there are likely an array of illegal elements. It's criminal.
There's a big difference between what scientific procedures prove, and what scientific organizations tell us. Nobody else but a multi-Gigadollar-per-year industry gets the special privilege of covering up facts just to bail out their profit margins.
There's such a strong connection between food and psychology, so yeah if you want to manipulate ANYONE the food is what to go for. If we cared about each other, then nutrition & body science would be a core part of school curriculums.
As long as food corporations are allowed to walk a gray line of manipulating data into their favor, nothing will change. The sugar industry didn't do anything wrong by finding another scapegoat. They act in their own self interest, bottom line, and stock price. Do you think politicians will change anything when they are also manipulated by sugar lobbyist that support these large corporations.
Not to mention medical science. Most of that is pure fiction too, just to enrich the usual suspects.
The ones in charge. The ones with all of the money. The ones with all of the privilege. ARE LITERALLY THE WORST PEOPLE AMONG US.
BUT "Humans are all evil and are polluting everything!!!!1"
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Because money is poured in from the top and is not appropriately distributed.
A certain Chinese man was right
The ones with the most money, that have more money than they can ever spend, just want control. They can try to spin that they are acting in the good of people, yet the have a self serving interest.
This is so sad... my wife works in a kindergarten here in South Korea, and not just hers but all kindergarten in the country have dedicated cooks for healthy fresh meals every day, they get fresh ingredients on a daily basis. Kids should be protected....there is something so disgusting about the government and food corporations in america...
Yeah and they eat dogs...?
@@Bill-n7e nah, that's just a stereotype.
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@Bill-n7le lil bro thinks this would make difference even if it were true
@@Bill-n7e embarrassing low IQ reply
Whatever FDA says I try to avoid it. I found myself in this rabbit hole of so many industry lies when I read "The 23 Former Doctor Truths". Its no wonder why Doctor left her career.
Children are the future. There should be laws to protect them from corporate greed!
So true
How is that making even more money right now though?
“We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective.”
― I thought Kurt Vonnegut but, I am finding Donella H. Meadows
They get help from power hungry politicians. Let’s don’t forget that part.
in america you can make your children work at your business for free. so child slave labor. america is great is it?
Than why are we voting left? The corporations pay the politicians to get what they want.
It's ridiculous what they server for breakfast in schools. You've got kids starting the day eating coco puffs with chocolate milk, poptarts, or syrup filled pre-packaged pancakes. It's crazy.
There are special interests who don't even want children well-nourished in school. If they're impoverished or poorly-fed as children, their chances of developing critical thinking skills descends, and they become easier prey for industries who use cheap wages and deplorable working conditions as a business model.
That's horrible. Isn't that food program run through USDA? I recall reading an article (may have been a video) a man that worked at USDA had concerns over a school lunch program they were reviewing. He spoke up & I believe he was fired. USDA was getting kickbacks from the company that wanted the contract. Wish I could recall more about it.
Literally dessert for breakfast
@@MeRia035Hillary may have had him suicided…
I mean, you could also just have most kids eating nothing until lunch. Then only the least nutritious possible item on their plate… then coming home ravenous, eating everything in the house, while bewailing the horror of school food. How long do you think it would take for parents to demand feeding kids food they will actually eat? (I preferred to go hungry and miss out on ice cream rather than eat spinach or beets. Think about that for a moment.)
Lobbying is such a curse on America.
It’s a curse everywhere. 🤨
@@Buttercup697true
It's literally called bribery in the rest of the world
Lobbying is a constitutionally protected process. "Right to Petition."
We all just need to lobby better. The best response to speech and lobbying you don't like is to be a better speaker and lobbyist.
@@IllinoisCitizen yeah no problem I will start lobbying with the spare billions of dollars I have, just like these giant corporations.
Sounds to me like it's long overdue for serious criminal charges. Also, We have got to end citizens united.
Yeahhh it is goofy how like, I have followed some leftist streamers since that started being a thing, and Citizens United and endemic corruption are never-mentioned subjects, despite being the most crucial, most important to understand flaws in our system
So every doctor and dentist goes to jail too?
@@youtrickube1475Why the hell would you infer that from what he said lol? Thats like saying "Its time for serious criminal charges for congressmen" and then asking "So every cop and lawyer goes to jail too?" Its a nonsensical tactic to make the dude's argument seem like it's steered at someone it's not and you should know better after 7th grade 🙄
YES, the idea that corporations have every themselves been considered their own singular person is totally fucking absurd. And I feel like when you tell people corporations are legally considered people, they're like "Oh ok" like no, not ok. Thats totally fucking absurd. Some of them literally are comprised of hundreds of thousands of employees around the globe, they're not "associates" theyre part of the corporation 🤦♂️
@@ScubieDoo2727 Are you implying that they were all hapless dolts who couldn't figure out that it was a scam?
In 1993 in my Chicagoland high school McDonald’s became available to purchase in our cafeteria. 31 years ago. Then I went to college and got a degree in natural resource management aka common sense. I learned that the world is completely fucked do to corporate interference in all aspects of society. Nothing has gotten better. NOTHING
*Due.
I've also heard that one children's hospital in Indiana used to have a McDonald's location in-house. With Ray Kroc having empowered McDonald's via neighboring Illinois, and Indy's habits as the Midwest's South, it wasn't the biggest surprise in the world, but it was a foul stain on children's health care and the history thereof.
I like that "natural resource management". Clever! 🏆
Hey now. At least 3 obese customers developed a life long consumption thanks to that school business partnership.
Western civilization saving itself isn't something that's in the cards.... sure, we should always try. And maybe I am just very wrong. But I think the very best we can hope for, is that we don't enter a dark age when things do inevitably fall to pieces, that we don't have to start over from square one, that when the world becomes largely uninhabitable and the few of us lucky enough to be wherever happen to survive, that we carry forward some of our technology and culture, and hopefully learn from the mistakes we're mired in now
They put so many things like this in our food as well. Society is being lied so much! I read "The 23 Former Doctor Truths" by Lauren Clark. Its fascinating how she talks about Industry.
This doesn't even mention the damage big sugar has done to the environment. Or what farm workers are subjected to
A video encompassing everything wrong about big sugar would have to be a 3 part series, 2 hours per episode at least. That's how bad it is.
Edit: I meant how bad big sugar is. Kinda sounded like I meant this video was bad, which it's not 🙂
Highest yield crop there is
There is only so much that can be said in one video if you intend to focus on one argument.
@@Summalogicae totally understand I just was pointing out how bad they are for the environment also. 👍
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Totally agree with you
I tried to limit my kids exposure to sugar as they were growing up. My son just had his 40th birthday. When he was 7, he woke up to find me watching a documentary about child labor on the sugar plantations. Many of the children in the documentary were his age. At the end of the film, they listed companies that obtained their sugar from these plantations. He was vigilant about boycotting those companies for a few months. With the exception of a brief period in high school where he drank Dr Pepper, he doesn’t eat sugary foods or processed foods. It’s important to get them on a good nutritional track early.
Thank you for showing him the truth very early in his life and for the empathy and social awareness he learned.
"Good nutritional track early" You probably think meat and eggs are healthy lmao
@@auviance222 They are? Meat isn't actually carcinogenic, that was misquoted pop science like the whole "brain develops fully at 25" misinfo. And eggs are chock full of nutrients - any cholesterol you eat, your body ramps down production of it. We would've been seeing record cases of heart disease and prediabetes in any meaningful fashion while we were eating meat and eggs more than food-like products we consume now if meat and eggs weren't healthy. It's the sugars and PUFAs that'll get you. You know, the oils treated with hexane and meant to be used as industrial lubricants😂
@@auviance222 It depends on the source. From my great grandparents on down, my family has had a tradition of eating mostly organic, naturally raised food. And yes, that included some meat. I personally never eat eggs because they make me nauseous. I rarely eat meat because the only meat that I am willing to eat is very expensive. I rarely have dairy with the exceptional of butter from organic, pasture raised cows. We try to support local organic farmers and ranchers whenever possible. I do have a small, indoor hydroponic system where I grow some fresh produce year round.
So perhaps the next time you decide to unleash your judgemental and uninformed comments on a stranger, hopefully you will consider showing some restraint. Otherwise, you probably will just end up making a fool out of yourself, again.
@@FGM013same. I started making small changes weekly long ago and now if I eat the mass produced stuff not only does it have little taste, it also tastes weird 💜
She's absolutely right about the palate getting used to increased sweetness. That's part of the reason sweet foods keep increasing their sugar content over the years. I quit consuming any sugar for about 8 months, and when I gradually added a little back to my diet I had to bake my own desserts with 1/3 as much sugar. Every pre-made treat tasted waaaaay to sickeningly sweet. Still does. It's a good way to overcome a sugar addiction, but it's hard to do! I had massive withdrawal cravings.
Mad respect for doing that! It is so very hard!
After studying abroad for 6months in Europe it was blatantly obvious to me how disgusting American food is.
Sugar is so insanely addictive. I've been prescribed a variety of controlled medications that are addictive, including Adderall, but nothing even comes close to the addictiveness of sugar. As an adult, I learned to avoid sugar-added foods, which cured my "bad teeth." It really gives you a new perspective when you've "detoxed" from sugar and try a treat you used to eat all the time.
Yeah I went from extreme sweet tooth to now consuming almost zero sugar.
I don't ever even desire desserts and usually turn them down.
They taste almost disgustingly sweet
@@MattAngiono That’s a serious achievement. Congrats 🙂
Almost 2 years ago I was diagosed as pre-diabetic, my doctor said I needed to lose weight ASAP, I was also taking medication for high cholesterol. My wife and I researched diets and decided to follow Keto guidelines and so we cut down (dramatically) on sugar, low quality carbs (cheap bread, donuts, etc because they are FULL of sugar) and UPF (again full of full of sugar, carbs and chemicals).
We went to a natural, low processed food, low carb, low sugar diet and between us we've lost over 25 kilos and six months later I did my bloods, my doctor was shocked that not only am I no longer prediabetic, but my cholesterol levels are also back to normal. People eat this big food rubbish, gain lots of weight, have horrible cholesterol, become diabetics, then big pharma kicks in with the prescription medicines and people are told it's because people are lazy and don't excersise or because it's genetic. We're never going back!
In the 00-Agents' Decade, many fast food chains added salads and other leaner options to their menus, but the other half of the time, they were introducing bigger, more fat-laden burgers and more potent desserts. I fear that United Staters have had those fatty foods and sugars marketed into their personal identities. Many of the commercials don't present them as just the newest dish, but as cultural symbols.
Actually they lied about the cholesterol being bad, too.
Well done on the diet change 🏆
@@dominicfucinari1942McDonald's sells salads. With a bunch of salty cheese. Also a salad dressing that has more sugar than a bag of Skittles.
@@Praisethesunsonumm they actually don’t even sell salads anymore or the grilled chicken sandwich
Keto isn’t good for people with already high cholesterol.
Most recent stats from a few years ago indicate 13% of Americans are full blown diabetic and another 37% are pre-diabetic. Probably worse now, given the trend. We're even seeing children with hbA1C in the diabetic range now. They're addicted and their lifespan, healthspan, and quality of life are all irrevocably impacted before they're even old enough to start making their own food choices. This country has sacrificed its soul upon the altar of corporate greed
I'm just shocked that people don't realize that you are nothing more than a piggy bank to coorperations. FDA is a scam to make you fat and buy sugar, school lunch prgrams are a scam to make your kids fat and subsidise more sugar. Now you're unhealthy for life so the Healthcare industry can start mikling every dime out of you while slowly killing you and never actually curing anything. The United States FDA and regulatory comissions are a complete joke feeding us poison.
Yes most Americans eat too much processed foods including sugary food like products however they also are among the highest consumers per capita of animal products
If they were to try a vegan diet, they could probably reverse much of that, but they are just as addicted to animal foods.
Addiction is brutal, but can be overcome.
I'm speaking from experience
I've recently learned that maltodextrin, which is a modified glucose, and is in almost all processed food now, has a higher glycemic index than table sugar, but it is not included under "added sugars" on nutrition labels. This is because it has no calories, and is considered a "starch," so it is just included in the over-all carb count. The problem with this is that it affects your insulin levels even worse than strait table sugar, when you are under the impression that you are taking in no sugar. The food industry is getting more and more devious!
WOW 😮
So dumb, that's just sugar industry propaganda. I mean how dumb does someone have to be to come here and post sugar industry propaganda on a video about sugar industry propaganda. Every single study ever done has shown modern artificial sweeteners to be safe in amounts that are possible to consume. Yeah, boy, i'm aware some studies glorify a cancer risk, probably funded by sugar industry, because you read the details beyond the headline and you would have to drink like 100 cans of soda every day for decades to have an elevated risk.
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I used to drink a 16oz can of Rockstar Energy drink every morning. At this same time I was going in 5 days a week for rTMS treatments (for those who don't know, its for treatment resistant depression) in the afternoon, and they would check my heart rate before every treatment. The medical staff were initially concerned with my heart rate consistently being a bit over 100 bpm, then I decided that I would switch to sugar free Rockstar energy drinks and they found my resting heart rate has actually increased to around 110 bpm. At the time, I was still very addicted to them, so I switched back to the regular Rockstar. I drank them once or twice daily from the time I was 15 years old until I was 23.
Dextrose is another one to look out for; almost as bad as Maltodextrin. I've been on keto for 6.5 years, if I see maltodextrin or dextrose in the ingredients, even if it is low carb, I don't buy it.
great vid. sucks that everything has become so corrupt. the enshitification of everything is nearly complete.
wellsaid!
Become corrupt?
As of there was a point when they weren't corrupt.
@@Gfish17There was.…
@@Gfish17 I know right, hilarious how this country was founded on slavery and everyone expected it to go over smoothly
Dude, enshitification is so funny
As an Australian... I wish we had school lunches. As a teacher in a low socio-economic school i had a freezer full of sandwiches made and paid for by the teachers for kids who couldn't bring lunch. Breakfast in the morning was made by a group of nannas and paid for local businesses.
Now... why would local businesses pay for school lunches? In a small community, kids who go to school aren't bored... and they don't break into stores. If a kid is hungry at home, they know they can go to school to get a meal. School breakfast and school lunches considerably increased attendance... and of course we had more learning because kids had the energy to do so.
Despite being the richest country in the world per capita, our right and centre left (aka... right) governments have always said we can't afford school lunches.
Of course they ignore all the evidence saying healthy school lunches pay for themselves in future outcomes. That would mean looking past their own term in office.
except the what they claim is food in the lunches isnt fit to be fed to pigs
Dr Paul Mason lives in Australia.
BIG Thanks to you and those others teachers for having those kids’ backs. How can a kid focus in school when their stomach is grumbling? Hugs from Brooklyn, US.
Despite what many think, school lunches weren't started out of charity. It was implemented by the military under emergency order to ensure soldiers when there was an entire generation of malnourished children after the Dust Bowl/Great Depression. It is prison grade food. And when we already have a processed food problem, many parents fight with their kids to bring healthy food from home, but because of peer pressure or temptation has the kids buying at school anyways. Our district has snack or break in the morning and the school sells snacks, and it is an entire store of junk and sugar. American school systems have way more corporate predation than people suspect.
(Aussie aswell) sugarcane crops are also a bit of a sign of empire in decline because it is a crop that handles higher salinity and so it's usually a sign that your soil is being spent as the sodium content builds from irrigation, evaporation etc and other more salinity sensitive crops won't grow.
The reason the Egyptian empire lasted so long is because of constant fresh top soil washing up through the Nile Delta every flood season.
Spent farming soil may have collapsed more empires than we know.
I know people say nicotine or caffeine are the most addictive thing but I think it’s legit sugar. It certainly is harder to avoid than those because it’s in almost everything. And even with the sugar alternatives, they’re just a methadone.
A friend of mine recently was saying that the hardest thing for him to quit was sugar, and he'd been both a smoker and coffee drinker.
And you HAVE to eat.
I'm fairly certain I've read that sugar is about 8x as addictive as cocaine
@@johnchedsey1306 can fully agree. Sugar is everywhere and advertised everywhere and accepted by everyone.
Literally had a sugar withdrawal when i quit. Thought i couldn’t live without it. Plus i learned it as a child.
I’ve discovered that my daughter has insulin hypersensitivity. She was having violent meltdowns (she’s also autistic). She brought home a yogurt in her lunch bag and it had 42 grams of sugar. I’ve requested that they feed her no sugar but it’s still happening on a regular basis (even with a doctors note) This crap is dangerous.
Eating healthy is cheap, I grew up in Turkey but still poor people eat the healthiest. It takes effort and preparation to cook which is why Americans choose lazy options and then complain. I lived in US shortly, rice and vegetables, beans etc are cheap. Potatoes are cheap. People need to cook these basics along with salads. Buy bulk and meal prep. They need to teach nutrition at schools immediately.
@thegalhorowitz Actually, here our unhealthy foods are the most accessible for the way our lifestyles have to work. A lot of people really unfortunately don't have a choice, we as the consumer are not the problem. The people raising the price of fresh produce and adding more junk to the shelves are to blame.
Yes potatoes and rice exist, but having a carb heavy foods is really bad for you too.
Just keep complaining, while also letting someone else raise your kid
@@thegalhorowitzEating a salad made yourself with purchased ingredients costs 3$ eating one at a restaurant with extremely similar ingredients costs about 20$. Laziness or lack of time from working too much is definitely a bigger problem than the 'cost' of healthy food. I live in the USA.
I cut out soda and I lost 80 lbs. I took my elderly mother off sugar and her UTI issues never occurred again, and is off all her medication. Like Big OIl, they have done the research and found out the facts addiction sells.
I have friends who drink a lot of soda but say they want to lose weight. I always suggest at least starting with stopping soda consumption, though few actually go through with that.
@@johnchedsey1306 At least move over to sugar free soda. It's one step in the right direction.
sugar isn’t the issue, seed oils are. you took your mother off of seed oils.
@@Ozzianmanthey are also probiotic sodas like Poppi: 25 calories per can 4 g of sugar with the probiotics mixed in. Those are a healthier alternative when you want that soda fix
@@marklouis1890 Those are not a thing at all in Norway. There is only sugar or sugar free.
I used to get terrible stomach aches as a kid. Probably had at least a six pack of it each day. As soon as I quit drinking all the soda, the stomach issues all went away. I've never gone back to drinking any of it. More recently I reduced all carbs daily to less than 30g daily. Dropped 30 pounds within two months just from reducing that.
This shit is literally killing us and keeping us sick. If you want to tackle obesity and other chronic inflammation related issues, cut out the gratuitous amounts sugar you eat in a day. It's pretty amazing how much better you can start to feel.
And also mental issues. Feel less anxious and hangry after ditching the sugar and empty carbs.
This is all old news but sadly millions of people are hearing this for the first time
I know
It's never too late for the truth.
This has bothered me so much since I found out about it and finally realized how bad it is. Those people are truly evil who would basically condemn so many children to a life addicted to sugar.
I backed WAY off sugar product 6 months ago, lost 15 pounds immediately and my stomach feels AWESOME now. Don't wait for government to do their job, cut the cord now, you can do it.
Unfortunately the only thing poor people can afford is junk food.
Unfortunately all poor people can afford is the sugar packed 💩. We need to demand government subsidize healthy food (like produce), especially for those on food stamps.
We also need to arrest the sugar industry executives. They're k!lling us
@@jessicar.8333 Unfortunately that is actually true. Good food does cost more.
True, but I'm poor and I cut drinking any kind of sugary drinks out of my life in my early 20s, just drink water and unsweetened tea now. That change alone reset my taste buds and eating other sugary foods became too much for me. I still like a sweet treat every once in awhile though, just not like I did when I was younger. I can see why these companies are so scared of small changes especially when it comes to children's diets.
A fun fact about this - most of the parent companies behind the old bliss-point research were also former parts of The American Tobacco Company, the tobacco monopoly of the late 1800's into the early 1900's.
How about going back to the Regan administration that began deregulation of corporations. I blame him for everything 😂
I do, too, but my school was serving milkshakes and Funions back in 1979.
Generally a wise rule of thumb though this is one of those rare instances where the causality seems to go the other way as the sugar industry was active with disinformation before Regan politically came to power. Still I have no doubt Regan made it worse and even pure unadulterated evil had to get their inspiration from somewhere.
Yes, he was absolutely awful!
It is really how funny looking into how this horrible thing came to be in America and just it started with Reagan. It's genuinely comical how often it happens.
Oh you sweet summer child. It’s been going on far longer than Regan.
Schools budgets cut so they cant afford fresh food or the people to cook it, forced into processed sugary foods, hmmmmm, almost like it was all done on purpose
My son has free breakfast at school, but it's fruit loops and chocolate milk.
He probably still gets it at school, but I have since made certain to feed him breakfast before school, hoping it makes an impact.
Blows my mind we feed kids sugar piles first thing in the morning and then expect them to learn.
We truly live in a dystopia
You truly live in America*
Fixed
I've generally avoided most sugary things (like, almost never having a soda) but a year ago during my yearly bloodwork checkup, my doctor noted my sugar levels were high enough to be a concern. So I started paying closer attention to what I was buying at the store...and every damn thing has sugar added when it's not necessary. It's actually a challenge to avoid it. Thankfully I did manage to lower the blood levels and my doctor was less concerned, but it was eye opening how ubiquitous it really is.
These companies are not entitled to eternal profit at the expense of our health.
Added sugar is unnecessarily in so many products, why does every food need to be super sweet & addictive
Which is why you have to be vigilant about reading the ingredients of what you buy
Because they want you to buy MORE (I know you know that).
Because it's addictive and that's more profits for the ultra rich
"The new regulations could lead us to use artificial sweeteners" that's a threat.
Some artificial sweeteners spike insulin more than regular sugar and of course they know it.
I love what the nutritionist says toward the end, policy makers need to demand oversight on where the wee tithe of government spending for lunches goes. Subsidize local food producers and pay for skilled chefs to prepare healthy, fresh foods.
Instead of debates this channel should just be shown to political leadership
I have been a cook for 36 years. I have noticed that men are actually picking salads, and such more over the years.
won't make a difference honestly. even if they have 1 healthy meal a day Big Sugar has them SORROUNDED!!!! They literally have to either eat sugar or starve. it's next to impossible otherwise
And you wonder why masculinity is declining.
@@DrawinskyMoon eating healthy, exercise, and knowledge makes an alpha
@@augustuscaeser8939 well not as long as you're eating whole foods ect. The sugar intake would be controlled. I only drink sparkling water, kombucha and coffee.
So while it's not great it's not coka cola bottles.
@@grayj7441 You do know that myth is bogus right? Wolves in the wild form family units and the scientists originally related to the study that started the entire alpha beta nonsense have distanced themselves from it.
It turns out that South Park's episode on Ozempic was an accurate portrayal of the sugar industry.
Forty years ago when I was in grade school, the budget for a hot school meal was $1. That it is still ONE DOLLAR forty years later is insane! 😮
Hey, you know what's bad for business? When your business is killing your customers! That's NOT a good business plan!
Unfortunately soda is slow poison--they can squeeze a good 40, 50 years out of their victims.
Heroin is a trillion dollar industry. People die. They make more.
They don't care about the future. They only care about now.
It's all about consumer throughput, which is why they're after the kids. Once you're obese, diabetic and sickly, you're Big Pharma's cow to milk. Big Sugar want you while you're young, impressionable, growing and hungry.
If I was a bad person I could make millions today, scam everyone, then when the consequences of my actions become apparent, I will be dead! Ta da!!!!
I will get to live in luxury, and those suckers in the future will pay for it! Perfect crime.
We need to end capitalism. Reform is not sufficient!
It needs to end, but that’s going to take a while, we need reform as a catalyst for systemic change
I agree we need change and we need it yesterday. Fuck capitalism
Sugar and corn syrup doesn’t belong in human food supply. I like how Chile made the industry mark packaging in a way to discourage people from buying food stuff with superfluous ingredients like sugar
I would not be too surprised if Chile gets invaded by someone, or their government toppled by revolutionaries backed by a foreign power.
@@JohnGeorgeBauerBuisThat already happened. Look into Chile's 9/11
sugar not belonging in the human food supply is a wild and incredibly stupid take. just limit your consumption and don't be a mindless consumer.
Barely saved my teeth as a result. Class action lawsuit
Let me guess, you were brushing your teeth along side consuming copious amounts of sugar. Its all one big scam
Because of a gosh damn parasite yea
These bs diseases they make to try and kill people sicken me
Sugar is addictive as far as I'm concerned. It is for me. I cannot have it in the house.
It's a drug like any of the other white powders we should avoid. I challenge anyone to disagree.
Unnecessary, harmful and addictive.
And never ever get a fast food milkshake.
Not even once.
I quit smoking and drinking and my junk food intake is off the chart. However I'm 65 so I'll enjoy my sweets because I don't have much time left.
Goddamn, I knew sugar was bad, but didn't realize the extent of the evil these executives perpetuated on society.
My ex was addicted to Mountain Dew because he had terrible allergies and the meds made him sleepy but coffee was yucky (I know). At the age of 40 the dentist came out and said all his teeth were shaped like dishes because of the consistent sugar wash.
Allergic to tea, too?
@@kennyholmes5196 Not interested. He wanted that sugar/caffeine high because he had the mind of a teenager. 🙂
@@vivalaleta Fun fact: Tea has a high amount of caffeine in it!
@@kennyholmes5196Depends on the type. Black tea, especially Assam, is on the higher end. Matcha also provides a good energy boost, but normal green tea tends to be half the amount of caffeine.
What a horrible doctor to not know that sugar is neutral pH therefore has no effect on teeth. What becomes a problem is if you have bacteria in your mouth that feeds on sugar and you let them do their thing repeatedly for hours everyday, yeah, can be an issue. Not if you have good dental hygiene.
Mt Dew screws you teeth because of all the other ingredients in it. Look at the fricking label, a lot of those things literally have ACID in their name. Use your brain god damnit.
It seems that the only chance we have is sustainable local farming and land management but it takes time.
Everyone should see this. It's crucial.
I shared it to my socials. With the heading “Sugar is killing us”. I hope at least my family sees it. They are very addicted and don’t think it’s a problem.
This should be common knowledge by now. . It's crucial.
Share it with all of your loved ones, friends, work colleagues.
Most days of the week I am not strong enough to watch through your videos, so I’ll come back when I’m ready. This is what real journalism FEELS like. To inspire such emotion is what every news outlet should aspire to. Thank you more perfect union for keeping it raw and real.
Happy to be sugar free for 7 years!
Congratulations 🍾🎉🎈
A great achievement. Well done!
I was once a sweet tooth.
My nickname was "Mattman the candy man" in high school, because i was always eating that stuff.
But now i eat almost no sugar and never crave it at all. I don't usually even eat dessert when offered.
Change is possible!
Your palate will adjust within weeks and you'll never need so much sugar again!
this is the exact same action plan that big oil companies use to cram industry propaganda into children's education nationally and worldwide... fascinating
Yep The Sugar industry was the pioneer of this type of disinformation and defamation/harassment campaign which was later adopted by t the fossil fuel industry after the saw the levels of success the sugar industry had at suppressing unwanted scientific facts that hinder their profit margins.
Why innovate when you can sow doubt through disinformation and lobby politicians to inaction?
The Tobacco industry is another big user of this strategy though there at least sustained prolonged public outcry was eventually able to overcome the industry's influence enough to pass some legislation but even there the disinformation campaigns have had remarkable success at fighting a clear unambiguous scientific consensus.
There is a book on the subject known as Merchants of doubt which focuses on the multibillion dollar corporate disinformation and lobbying industry which has been built up to silence and obfuscate inconvenient scientific evidence which would undermine profit margins.
If the US government can get healthy food to every corner of the military, they can easily get healthy food to school children.
Interesting that you should say that. Back in the mid 1970's I worked for the USAF at their base in Berlin and I can remember how gorgeous and sweet and moorish their food and drinks were compared to German or English fare. I stayed with USAF for about 18 months and put on two stone in weight - as soon as I came back to the UK and our grim diet I lost it thankfully.
This is inaccurate
I wouldn't exactly call our food healthy
My top fear is that WAL-MART doesn't want children to be better-fed or well-equipped for school, because the worse students do, the more likely WAL-MART can have a monopoly on their labor, which they'd lowball them for. Superemployers like WAL-MART have that as an essential plank of their business model.
The oil industry is marketing plastic as recyclable and marketing themselves as becoming more sustainable - to children, today.
It should be illegal, not just because it is false advertising, but also for the same reason laws against tobacco ads aimed at children were made illegal - it is ultimately bad for them.
I'm so glad my dad as a scientist ignored corporate marketing and actually started me early on fresh fruits and vegetables. I can't stomach junk food most of the time it makes me physically sick and I'd rather go eat something healthy.
This is another reason to boycott these evil international mega brands!
When I quit drinking and smoking weed I started eating a lot more sugar, something my friends have related to, and (like 1am baking cookies, finished by morning a lot) I started to feel baseline worse than I did with substance abuse. Rapid weight gain, teeth sensitivity, brain fog, sleep disruption. Luckily when I cut back on sugar my gut microbiome responds pretty quickly in ceasing those signals that affect impulse control (and vice versa when I increase sugar intake again), but it's like damn, regulate This. Tax This.
Same here but I smoked cigarettes.
Not only is Coca Cola poisoning Mexico but they are also causing a big water shortage in the hottest year on record.
I’m helping. I quit drinking Coke because they changed it and it has totally messed up my gut.
Truly evil
These marketing executives have NO business sense at all and are freaking cowards! If they had business sense they would capitalize on PROVIDING healthy food and being the first & best to do it! They would priotizing being the top provider of actually healthy food instead of beating the dead horse that is sugar. Just like if energy companies had any business sense they would capitalizing on SUSTAINABLE energy sources like solar, wind, water, even garbage to energy instead of beating everything out of the dead horse that is oil. These failures and cowards are bad for business, bad for profits, bad for humanity. All the best business decisions are SUSTAINABLE. Forcing sugar, cigarettes, fake food, etc are NOT sustainable. Killing your customers on purpose is NEVER a good business strategy ever. These executives all need to be replaced with people who have actual business sense, sustainable business practices and long term vision.
Growing up I went into school lunch debt and was forced to go hungry. No money, no food for the children in America.
Food lunch debt shouldn't even be a thing. It's disgusting that children can't even have a balanced meal due to the financial instability. School lunches should be subsidized especially in low-incomed areas. I had to pay about $2 for my school lunch everyday in high school. According to the school district my mom made too much for us to qualify for subsidize school lunches.
While valuable, this is information that has been out for a while. American citizens need to use their wallets as well as their ballots for healthier environments in the United States. Thanks 🇺🇸❤️
watchign this while drinking a baja blast like "oh shit"
I enjoy Soda but can we make syrupy fizzy water less harmful someone?
As long as it isn’t a regular thing, it’s fine to enjoy. You don’t even have to drink the whole thing in one day.
@@Gfish17 "Clean Food Living" answered how one month ago.
@@Gfish17try olipop, poppi, liquid death, or spindrift. The first two taste like soda and are good for your gut. The second two are flavored sparkling water that have good ingredients. :)
they got me good.
Same bro, same. Trying to lose 22 lbs. I was down to 10 left from 30, but now I'm back at 22. Sugar is the number 1 getting in the way. I really need an incredible amount of self-control to avoid sugar. It's not enough that sugary foods are widely available, but now foods have the most absurd amounts of sugar. 40g in a big cup large reeses cup pack. 27-38g in a pint if chocolate milk. It's hard to stay away from sugar, and extra hard to have a reasonable amount if you have some at all.
@@PlazDreamweaverjust put a negative connotation on them. Make it so whenever you eat sugar you feel gross
@@PlazDreamweaver after like 4 weeks of being sugar free you really don't crave it anymore. Stay strong brother!
@@PlazDreamweaver@PlazDreamweaver I have had a lifelong sugar addiction and have tried to diet it since I was 6. Imagine that... 6!. A lifetime of yo yo weight loss and gain. 50 lbs every year. Avoided fat all my life, and even when I gave up sugar, I didn't realize the key was eating fat to stay satiated. Did Keto over 3 years ago and lost 60 lbs. I've kept my weight off since. I won't touch sugar.
@@PlazDreamweaverIt might help to find replacements or set some rules. My personal rule is to not buy any candy or sweets that I don’t put make from scratch. Plus I can control how much is made and even how much sugar goes in. Right now I have some little cookies I made that aren’t super sweet and made for dipping in coffee. 1-2 is usually enough of a treat for the day. Office treats have made my rule more complicated though.
Knowledge is power. That's why lobbyist exist to control the narrative on what is healthy and what is not. Major corporations have long had their hands on the levers of power that guide society and truthful information. Politicians and people at the top of these corporations conspire to this end. Often times you wonder why politicians vote against the interest of their constituents. Money and power is their focus and who cares if there is harm to the general public. This system of things is twisted and immorally grotesque. That is why very soon this system will come to its end - Dan 2:44.
I wish they could have lobbied harder. I miss my sugary products before the sugar tax 😂
Also btw this whole butter vs margerine thing is pretty funny because margerine is healthier than butter haha
Everything said to be bad of margerine are under 1g 😂
WE NEED TO STOP SUBSIDIZING CORN
Sugar companies flooded the market with cheap sugar products after the USA 'liberated' Spanish speaking countries from Spain and implanted US business interests in countries like Puerto Rico, forcing people to work for slave wages under horrendous conditions building an American sugar empire. Poverty and hunger skyrocketed there while obesity and diabetes skyrocketed here.
We'd still have sugar if America had kept it's word and left those countries independent to conduct trade on their own behalf; it just wouldn't have been so cheap that it was practically free and used in massive quantities as an unhealthy and unnecessary additive in practically everything.
It's really true that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, because borders mean nothing to the rich and powerful. People, ALL people, are just disposable resources to them.
As someone who is addicted to sugar, I would like these companies taxed and even closed.
I have a major sweet tooth but I know my limit. I for one don’t want more taxes. They just make things worse.
@@DrawinskyMoon Don't think of it as a tax, think of it as them paying for the harm they do. Just like gas taxes go to road maintenance.
Externalities can be priced into the market. Taxes are much simpler than harm markets like the carbon credit market.
THANK YOU more perfect union for picking up on and covering this story. It's a huge story that is still kept very quiet even though it is there plain to see if you look and has been for years.
just like any other addiction the more hits we get the more tolerance we build
That - " citizens united " - Big Lie - .
Not much hope for democracy after that
Im addicted and im afraid this addiction will kill me. I dont know what to do.
It's unfortunate to hear that, but here are some that I have.
If it's something like soda, maybe you can try not buying soda or keeping any in your house, so you can't drink any even when you want to. Maybe try to replace that sweet craving for some other flavor, like savory (as long as you keep salt levels under control). That's just an idea.
Some good advice I heard was to basically avoid the interior isles of grocery stores because that is where all the processed stuff is, and it's generally pretty true. If you never pass by it, you won't be tempted to by it as severely.
Maybe you could (and or should) get professional help from a dietician/nutritionist if you could afford it or some other professional trained in dealing with cases of addiction.
Cooking for yourself if you have the time is the best way to control what food you eat, and it's generally much healthier than buying anything highly processed because it avoids all the added sugars, preservatives, etc. The difficult part for me is spending the time doing it. Meal prepping actually helps with that because one cooking session yields 4 or 5 or so servings of a particular meal.
These are just ideas of course. The specifics are determined by your exact situation.
Just don't eat it
Wean yourself off it slowly, this requires diligence, rigorous honesty, and patience, but it's more than achievable. Try calculating your sugar intake daily (grams or even just sevings) with just sweets/sugary drinks. Slowly reduce sweets/soda little by little each day. Then, once you're feeling OK with that (and there will be cravings but if you ride it out slowly, they will be minimal) then start cutting out added sugars, replace those with fruit, some very minimal honey, and once added sugars are off your plate start weaning off the honey, calm the cravings with fruit (frozen banana and cherries are awesome for this) Expect this to take a month or two. And flush your system with water (don't be extreme about it though) and get as much sleep as you reasonably can. Sleep deprivation triggers sugar cravings like crazy. If you go backwards, *do not beat yourself up for it* and try not to be like "ah, fk it, might as well get in a good sugar binge now since I already screwed up" just get back on track (even if you ultimately give in to a sugar binge at any point, get rught back on track, no beating yoursdlf up allowed because you are doing a hard fking thing d@mmit) maybe slow down on weaning a little bit if you cave, but get right back on moving forward, little by little. Even cutting back on any level is an amazing accomplishment, so don't forget to remind yourself how far you've come during the process. It also helps to associate eating sugar with pain (like if you have a bad back or inflammatory issues etc...) as we've been conditioned to blame our pain (emitional and physical) on ourselves or anything else other than sugar) Remind yourself that if you do give into a craving, you'll only crave even more in 2 hours or so. While you can get through it, reactivated cravings become a psychological battle as they'll lie to you, trying to convince you that you've always felt this way and will continue to feel this way, so it's hopeless and you should just give up. Also, the anxiety, low points you probably feel every day, that's likely sugar withdrawal, and if youre addicted daily, youre experiencing withdrawal anyway, so you might as well get your freedom from it instead of shacking yourself even more to this horror that's slow kilingus all. . Anyway, that's a lot, but that's how I did it.
Tbh once I found out the truth of alcohol, sugar And the rest of the garbage we are served that was enough for me to stop using all of it point blank that very second.
My suggestion for soda is to look for flavored fizz. If it’s the texture you like buy a case of spindrift and sweeten it yourself with honey, agave or maple syrup. Continue that until you can lower the sugar content down to nothing. As for baked goods, look for organic brands that have few ingredients in them. Rule of thumb for buying packaged food, if you can’t pronounce the ingredient it shouldn’t be in your body.
I'm just so tired of people being evil. Like, it's not hard to _not_ be evil.
I will say, though, that for me at least, the "get 'em while they're kids" tactic didn't work. I loved things sugar-bomb type snacks when I was a kid, but I hate them as an adult. Every time I try to go back a childhood favorite like Poptarts or Gushers or something, as an adult I'm just disgusted by it. I assumed adults simply grew out of liking sweet things, but I guess not everyone does?
I’m T2D and I have to give up sugar and fast metabolizing starches. It’s in ALL Processed Foods. I’m finding a whole new way of eating and cooking. 😮
I see one major problem with sugar taxes. As this video states, ‘sweet tooths’ are a thing, created by a manipulation of our sense of how much sweetness we need. Where implemented, sugar taxes have been avoided by companies switching to artificial sweeteners - which was the point of the tax. But because they don’t reduce the sweetness of the products, in fact often they make them sweeter, they are still manipulating people into having a sweet tooth, and thus being more likely to pick sweet options, whether artificially sweetened or sweetened with sugar.
my next instinct would be to tax the artificial sweeteners too, but idk
Not all artificial sweeteners are bad for you. Monk fruit and Ethriynol are a better alternative to sugar in moderation of course
Make America healthy again!!! No more seed oils or crazy refined sugars!!!
The REAL issue is 1: processed food and 2: sedentary lifestyles
2002-2003 I couldn’t use my reduced lunch money on my card at the student store but damn if they didn’t have Cheetos and Snapple apple available in the actual lunch line and I could waste my reduced lunch money on full priced junk.
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Dentists in Australia used to give out lollypops to kids after every visit...
That's wild
I love how they demonize "added sugar", but have no issue with plain old sugar in foods like grapes, oatmeal orange juice and pasta which is all sugar.
Carnivore diet or illness, you decide.
So glad you made this video, thank you!!!
Makes me sick at what we do to our KIDS for greed and profit!
Systematic nurder is literally the only option we left to us.
Anyone claiming otherwise is just afraid to loose their comfort and convenience...
This is why I can't get my kid to make healthy choices: school teaches them this "food" is good for them. It's infuriating 😔
This channels production is top tier. Definitely filling the void vice has left
Should definitely look into the vegetable oil industry too. A lot of processed foods these days are ladened with added vegetable oils, to the point where 700 calories of your daily intake is just oils. (Not sure if that's fully accurate, that's off my memory)
Definitely. Added oils and sugars are what makes the garbage food we get sold taste so addictive.
Best info on the web🎉
The real issue is the corporate capture of our regulators and politicians.
We are so dumbed down . We all need to embrace the facts . We are what we eat !
The worst part is how hateful sugar makes you. I just drank an all-natural ginger beer because I've never had one and happened upon them at Aldi when looking for things I needed that they didn't carry.
I felt compelled to make the purchase so as not to leave the store empty handed...
"Made with pure cane sugar"
That's usually better, in my experience, than artificial sweeteners or high fructose corn syrup. However, having not had soda in a long while, I felt the effects of it instantly and have been in a very combative mood ever since.
Live and learn 🤷🏽
Excellent,as always.Thank you.
When we talk about the Devil on earth, this lobby is it.
The trouble isn't sugar, it's the KIND of sugar. high fructose corn syrup. Bleached white sugar.
Ugh 😢. I grew up on margarine, too. The campaign to stay away from butter was sure a bad one!!!
And then, of course, I could find my own family margarine…. 🧈 ugh 😩
The best we can with the knowledge we have at the time …😢 still sucks though
Having lived in another country other than the USA before I was 10 years old I was taught that soda pop was not food. When I (as a young man) had very little money to buy food in my teenage years I always ordered water as a beverage and spent my scarce funds on only food. My friends spent almost twice as much money and and got more sugar and less real food. There is a lesson to be learned by anyone who is lacking funds, buy only the real food that you need and don't waste your money on things that are bad for you!
I also really love the corporate advertising in the literal classrooms our children are in. Saw C is for Coke on one of their learning posters in a pre-school classroom....
And we know that advertising to children is waaaaay more effective than it is to adults....
America, #1 at a whole bunch of screwing ourselves over for some rich jackass to afford a 2nd yacht.
So sickening.
Fresh baked bread is still bread and it is not good for us.
How anyone willingly eats sugary snacks on a constant basis, I'll never understand. Whatever happened to taking responsibility?