Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. escalated his war against the food industry on Tuesday, declaring that “sugar is poison.”


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  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This, coming from Captain Brainworm?

    Didn’t he get that brainworm from eating undercooked bear meat or something like that?

    You’d think he should be declaring undercooked meat as ‘poison’ instead, but I guess the worm ate that thought out of his head…

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    3 months ago

    Sugar is not poison, it is a nutrient, it is a type of carbohydrate. However even nutrient can become poisonous at the right high dosage. Dosage makes the poison. Even water at the right dosage can cause coma and death. During emergency situations, glucose (a sugar) is used to quickly raise blood sugar levels. Too much sugar is bad for you but it is not a poison.

    Poison are stuff that harms the body when absorbed at any dosage, they don’t provide any benefit and the body can’t use it to thrive, they are not nutrients, example plutonium. plutonium is toxic, a poison at any dosage.

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      2 months ago

      No that’s high fructose corn syrup not sugar. Banning that may impact Republican farmers

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        2 months ago

        its still a sugar, and ask Mrs. Huckabee they dont seem to care if you are Red or Blue its only for the Billionaire or more will they think about you.