View Full Version : Sugar is a hard drug
strictlybroadband
02-15-07, 03:37 PM
"Sugar is as dangerous as tobacco [and] should be classified as a hard drug, for it is harmful and addictive," according to a recent article in the British Medical Journal.
Sugar is more dangerous than almost all illegal drugs - excluding crack, heroin and (maybe) cocaine. And we feed it to kids.
Our drugs laws are sensible aren't they?
Tate & Lyle have a fucking lot to answer for!!! :onguard:
strictlybroadband
02-15-07, 03:44 PM
Tate & Lyle have a fucking lot to answer for!!! :onguard:
What, making people fat or the slave trade?
WordsforHire
02-15-07, 03:50 PM
Well I can't take my tea without my one spoon of sugar so call me a hardcore addict, comeon..I'm addicted...!
wankmaster
02-15-07, 03:55 PM
Sugar, salt, white flour.
The three white killers.
Elisha Jade
02-15-07, 04:01 PM
Does anyone notice if they have something sugar-y the next morning you have a sort of "junk food" hangover the next day :(
AllRuth
02-15-07, 04:05 PM
Does anyone notice if they have something sugar-y the next morning you have a sort of "junk food" hangover the next day :(
If I eat a box of Krispey Kreme; I get a full on sugar crash with headaches that same day. Serves me right though! :p
Regular Coca-Cola leaves me in fits of giggles. Sounds like fun. Isn't really.
Elisha Jade
02-15-07, 04:05 PM
If I eat a box of Krispey Kreme; I get a full on sugar crash with headaches that same day. Serves me right though.
Eeek!! :(
WordsforHire
02-15-07, 04:09 PM
Krispey creme?
Krispey creme?
Just the BEST donuts in the WORLD.
Double dozen = instant popularity in any workplace.
AllRuth
02-15-07, 04:15 PM
Krispey creme?
OMFG, you poor bunny. You haven't lived. Pure evil sugar junk lovelieness.
Box of four chocolate Iced Kreme filled please :)
http://www.krispykreme.co.uk/Doughnuts-Our-Varieties
WordsforHire
02-15-07, 04:19 PM
Mmmmm look good but I wouldnt touch the choco ones :/ I dont like chocolate other than cadburys or ferrero lol...
edit - no stores in scotland
I think you need to make a distinction between sugar and refined sugar
I heard it has effects similar to some drugs increasing certain brain chemicals
but if I wanted to get a buzz on I'd always take a crack rock over a twix
mysatin
02-15-07, 06:04 PM
OMFG, you poor bunny. You haven't lived. Pure evil sugar junk lovelieness.
Box of four chocolate Iced Kreme filled please :)
http://www.krispykreme.co.uk/Doughnuts-Our-Varieties
At 350kcal per doughnut [http://www.krispykreme.co.uk/krispy/assets/pdfs/nutritional_info.pdf], it's going to take me a while to work off four of those at the gym :(
"Sugar is as dangerous as tobacco [and] should be classified as a hard drug, for it is harmful and addictive," according to a recent article in the British Medical Journal.
Sugar is more dangerous than almost all illegal drugs - excluding crack, heroin and (maybe) cocaine. And we feed it to kids.
Our drugs laws are sensible aren't they?
Yep. Many times I have heard of people mugging, committing burglaries, and resorting to armed robbery to feed their sugar addiction.
wankmaster
02-16-07, 11:46 AM
Yep. Many times I have heard of people mugging, committing burglaries, and resorting to armed robbery to feed their sugar addiction.
Sugar is not illegal, folk can but it very cheaply at Tescos.
Heroin is illegal, hence the crime connection.
A steady supply of pure heroin presents no major health problems to the user, unlike tobacco and alcohol, both of which kill millions each year.
Sugar is not illegal, folk can but it very cheaply at Tescos.
Heroin is illegal, hence the crime connection.
A steady supply of pure heroin presents no major health problems to the user, unlike tobacco and alcohol, both of which kill millions each year.
Very true, ma cuz was a smackhead he held down a job for years and supported his habit it eventually got him like as it always does thats the distinction.
Sugar is not illegal, folk can but it very cheaply at Tescos.
Heroin is illegal, hence the crime connection.
A steady supply of pure heroin presents no major health problems to the user, unlike tobacco and alcohol, both of which kill millions each year.
Yup, blurring shit is always good.
So, sugar is not illegal, and you can buy it at Tesco = what?
Heroin = what the fuck to do with sugar?
Tobacco/alcohol killing millions of people each year = what the fuck to do with sugar?
fuck me, I'm a right wing cunt with the best of them, but sugar...? On a par with tobacco and alcohol? sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet, talk about a load of bollocks....
wankmaster
02-16-07, 04:50 PM
Both sugar and salt are highly addictive. They are major ingreadients of most prepared foods ( guess why? ). As we eat more prepared food as a nation we get fatter and suffer more sickness, which cannot be cured, but can be made more bareable by presciption drugs. Most prescription drugs have side effects which depress the health even more. So, more drugs.
I guess I'm just trying to point out the irony that heroin ( don't try it at home kids ) is generally assumed to be one of the most dangerous drugs, when in fact the health issues are minor, yet white sugar really does shorted the lives of many people, but it's regarded as a joke. We don't look at the true harm of stuff, it just goes on predjudice and the popular press.
Sugar is not illegal, folk can but it very cheaply at Tescos.
Heroin is illegal, hence the crime connection.
A steady supply of pure heroin presents no major health problems to the user, unlike tobacco and alcohol, both of which kill millions each year.
Yep, long-time heroin addicts always look really healthy...
wankmaster
02-16-07, 07:32 PM
Yep, long-time heroin addicts always look really healthy...
Exactly. There was a study in the States by the government in the 1940s ( I can't find a link to it at the moment ) and one of things that they said was that the addicts had a very healthy skin tone.
Another interesting fact is that those pilots suffering bad burns in WW2 lived taking heroin all their lives thereafter and lived out normal life spans into their 70s and 80s dying of natural causes.
The whole thing was covered in a channel 4 drugs week documentary afe years back. Fascinating.
pleasureville
02-17-07, 01:21 AM
What, making people fat or the slave trade?
Sugar isnt fattening.. its a source of energy.. but i like the comment! What do you reckon.. £3.5 an hr minimum wage... then the top dogs are on their million a yr. Saying that, most larger companies are like that these days.
Elisha Jade
02-17-07, 10:04 AM
Sugar isnt fattening.. its a source of energy.. but i like the comment! What do you reckon.. £3.5 an hr minimum wage... then the top dogs are on their million a yr. Saying that, most larger companies are like that these days.
Refined sugar is fattening...cakes, chocolate, white powdered sugar you put in your tea. Natural sugar from fruit is less so.
wankmaster
02-17-07, 10:19 AM
For sweetening I always use honey, which contains a lot of good stuff, tho I don't know offhand what that might be.
I do keep a bag of white sugar in the house. I put a half teaspoon in spaghetti sauce when I make it, and also use it when making cups of tea for tradespeople. A 2 kilo bag will last me several years.
Without some sugars and some fats in our diets we'd die. I know this is old fashioned but as my old mum used to say - "moderation in all things" and "a little of what yer fancy does you good" aren't bad maxims for life.
wankmaster
02-17-07, 10:33 AM
Anyone interested in knowing why refined sugar is bad for you here's a link.
http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/sugar_addiction.html
strictlybroadband
02-17-07, 10:51 AM
Without some sugars and some fats in our diets we'd die. I know this is old fashioned but as my old mum used to say - "moderation in all things" and "a little of what yer fancy does you good" aren't bad maxims for life.
You're completely right - but our sugar consumption is way too high. The worst part is seeing parents buy cans of highly sugared water and giving it to their kids.
A link with the earlier story about Dutch and Scandinavian kids being the happiest while British and American kids are the least happy. Go to Holland and you'll see kids drinking water or milk. When did you last see a British kids eating or drinking something healthy?
WordsforHire
02-17-07, 12:20 PM
I tend to only give Alyssa water or milk and she's always a very happy baby (apart from lately the little shite...)She doesn't need juice, she's more than happy and enjoys water or milk just as much as flavored stuff, why bother giving her the stuff with all the additives when she drinks the plain stuff ?:)
strictlybroadband
02-17-07, 12:26 PM
I tend to only give Alyssa water or milk and she's always a very happy baby (apart from lately the little shite...)She doesn't need juice, she's more than happy and enjoys water or milk just as much as flavored stuff, why bother giving her the stuff with all the additives when she drinks the plain stuff ?:)
I only gave my son water to drink when he was small. Of course once he started school, he wanted to eat and drink the same crap as his mates, but since he hadn't been hooked on it his whole life he didn't find Coke and McDonalds very tasty. Now as an adult he loves cooking and eats really well. So long as you can keep kids from getting hooked on junk in their first few years, they'll make sensible choices later in life.
I think it helped that his grandparents were Asian so he was used to the taste of proper cooked food from an early age.
You're completely right - but our sugar consumption is way too high. The worst part is seeing parents buy cans of highly sugared water and giving it to their kids.
A link with the earlier story about Dutch and Scandinavian kids being the happiest while British and American kids are the least happy. Go to Holland and you'll see kids drinking water or milk. When did you last see a British kids eating or drinking something healthy?
Today.
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