KATIE COURIC'S PERILS OF FOOD POLICS

All children like sugar and dislike vegetables. It's the way the human body functions. An infant's and child's taste receptors aren't fully developed. They taste sweet very well, so they eat it. Bitter is bad to them, hence disliking vegetables, due to the bitter flavors in them. This isn't new. This is something that's been ingrained in human behavior as long as there have been humans. Sweet = good, bitter = poison.

Kids don't eat sugar and shun vegetables because they are addicted to sugar. They eat sugar because they are kids.

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Maybe you should send me a personal message if you have issue? I didnt make outlandish claims, i expressed m,y opinion - and yes, I felt you were rude because of the personal attack, not because i couldnt "back up outlandish claims" as you put it

I was obese - and I didnt know how i got that way, neither did many of my obbese friends. We werent dumb, we werent stupid, we just didnt understand. I didnt call us, obese people, dumb.

The goverment adds sugar to food, yes, ok....so...what more do you want? I don't know what "private businesses" you are talking about??? i dont really care though so there that...

yes, i place, for me personally, sugar in the same catagorie as drugs and alcohol - sure - however you see addictive, like i said, if you look up the definition of addictive, thats how i feel about sugar, for me, personally, IMO.

Your comment about Monsanto makes no sence to me so Im not sure how to respond.... I dont know what you want me to defend. Its my opinion, like i said over and over.... I work in a lab and alter food, so, its just something of interest to me because its essentially my life...

And obviously scaring people gets their attention otherwise they wouldnt do it - this is how the news works, its a bunch of bull **** - all you have to do it watch it to see that.

Smile more - be less miserable :-)

Why should I personally message you? You made your statements here, do you not want to discuss them here? Personally I prefer educating people who might read your post as to how inaccurate it is, so others don't fall for the same lies you have.

Again, the government does not add sugar to food. Private companies make and sell food. This is a fact, it's not up for debate. You're just wrong.

I am a happy, non-miserable person. I called your beliefs dumb, because they are. Same as I would to someone who thinks the Earth is flat. You being wrong about something does not make me an unhappy, mean person.

All the name calling in the world won't make what you said right. And while I may not have held your hand and said, "Aw honey, it's ok. You go right on believing any false thing that makes you happy!" that doesn't make me mean. If anything you could probably use more people in your life who are straight and honest with you, as opposed to feeling that manipulating the facts is ok so long as it inspires some kind of change in your life.

Learn more, believe facts.

I got to go have a meeting with the research leader - apparently my job here doesn't actually exist! All this time... I've been driving all the way here and going through the motions for nothing - I must have been dreaming this entire time - this entire government facility is a facade, a huge holgrame, a figment of my imagination?? Who knows, Im just glad there are so many better educated people out there than I who can point out that what i do for a living is actually just a scene from the god damned movie the matrix. Im going to go eat a candy bar and see if i can fly.

There is no reason to go off the deep end. The government does not provide food for the majority of the population, nor is what it generates from your facility the reason that many Americans are obese.

In fact, if you are making MREs, their goal is to provide incredibly calorically dense food in small quantities with a high carb load because soldiers in action don't have a lot of time to eat, and I'm sure starving to death with no energy does not make a good fighter. That said, many people active in the military who are likely to be eating MREs are usually in pretty good shape, and are not adversely affected by the sugar you are adding in your lab. Why? Because their caloric output equals or exceeds their caloric input.

And if you truly feel that you job is the downfall of the system and you are duping Americans and making them all fat, why don't you change jobs?

If we're going to point fingers I'd like to propose pointing in the direction of General Mills.

Cereal, the idea, in and of itself, is ancient and fine. People have been having breakfast cereal forever. It used to be grains, with cream, butter etc etc and was a brilliant way to start your day.

Most people don't realize that when you feed your kids/family the modern manifestation of cereal, you're feeding them something akin to a candy bar in nutrition. And it tastes so dang good no one has the 1/2 cup serving size. So if it has 30g sugar in once serving, and your kid has two bowls, your angel just unknowingly scarfed down 60g of sugar. That is a LOT! And that's just to start the day off.

General Mills goes right into elementary schools (as does Coke) and advertises, promotes, hands out freebies, donates to the school in exchange for promotions and putting signs up in the schools. It's outside the scope of what you would expect. It's predatory. Kids do not have the physical ability to use logic, rationalize, and moderation. They're kids. Their brain is still developing. You tell them to drink Coke & Lucky Charms and they will.

It works and that's why the keep on doing it.

I went to my daughter school assembly one morning and the principal went in front of the school and held up boxes of General Mills cereals. She stated verbatim in the microphone to every child in the school looking on "When you see these cereals int the store tell your parents to buy them!"

When educational authorities that are supposed to be teaching the children health are literally taking pay-offs from junk food companies to push it on the children, I have a problem with that.

no...what does Katie Couric know about nutrition? She is a reporter there by jumping on a controversial topic for ratings.

Everything we’ve been told about food and exercise for the past 30 years is dead wrong. FED UP is the film the food industry doesn’t want you to see. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.

Yup got all the major players in it....those who want to demonize sugar...

I will save my money for a DQ soft serve thanks.

ETA: I did watch the trailer btw...it's got lustig and the other one with a similar name...along with another guy I've seen mentioned a lot...

She's a journalist. She doesn't need to be an expert. She goes and interviews experts and gathers data and then presents it in a way that the common person can understand. By your standard, journalists would have to be experts in absolutely everything before they can report on it.

But good journalists look for balance ..........

Balanced reporting doesn't generate ratings which sell advertising.

We have regressed back to the days of "yellow journalism". Sad really.

Be sure to watch Katie Couric's FED UP!!!!! http://fedupmovie.com/#/page/home

The message that the "messenger, Katie Couric" is trying to send is : EXCESS sugar is dangerous. EXCESS. According to experts, EXCESS is this case, is more than 10 percent of one's calories.

Joanne Moniz
The Skinny on Obesity Group

Isn't EXCESS of anything in the diet bad? This is just a promote your stance against sugar in it's entirety. Especially fructose.

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In the four pages of comments, did we ever figure out what polics are?

And in.

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The mystery continues
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Hi !! I just had to re-read to make sure i didn't mis-speak - I don't want to spread rumors about what we do because it is very important and I don't want people to think we are feeding the military poorly!!

I did not, ever, say we add sugar to MREs - someone else said "please explain how goverment makes food" so I replied "I work for the goverment, I make MREs, so the goverment makes food". I was answering an un-related question to the "sugar war" as Im calling it - looking back it seems as though words were put in my mouht, we DO NOT "add" sugar to MRE's in the way I think this documentary is saying (though, there sugar in them - but its not added sugar). Someone else said something about my job being the downfall of this country - yikes - I certainly don't eblieve that! I may not like my job, but nutrition for the troops has come along way - they are getting much "better foods", goverment mandated and all!

What we grow in petri dishes are bacteria resistant strains of yeast... which make up many of the meals we supply - we - as the government - There are many, many private organizations, companies that provide their own food Im sure - I personally know only one, I buy meat from him sometimes, he doesnt add sugar, or anything "extra" to his meat.

There is also this goverment agency called the FDA that mandates what is in school lunches amoung other things, which include certain foods, made by government owned organizations (which I see as 'the goverment) that so add sugar to their foods. So thats what i mean when i say the goverment does add sugar to their foods.

We don't add sugar to MREs - if you read back you will see I never said that, i think there was just some confusion because i asnwered a question on a post you had previously commented on.

This entire thing looks like it spiraled way off topic and out of control, i didnt read all the way back so if someone else threw a jab at me and i didnt respond sorry!! Glad people are at least talking about this stuff, which, after all, if the point of this documentary and why it is important.

Maybe you should send me a personal message if you have issue? I didnt make outlandish claims, i expressed m,y opinion - and yes, I felt you were rude because of the personal attack, not because i couldnt "back up outlandish claims" as you put it

I was obese - and I didnt know how i got that way, neither did many of my obbese friends. We werent dumb, we werent stupid, we just didnt understand. I didnt call us, obese people, dumb.

The goverment adds sugar to food, yes, ok....so...what more do you want? I don't know what "private businesses" you are talking about??? i dont really care though so there that...

yes, i place, for me personally, sugar in the same catagorie as drugs and alcohol - sure - however you see addictive, like i said, if you look up the definition of addictive, thats how i feel about sugar, for me, personally, IMO.

Your comment about Monsanto makes no sence to me so Im not sure how to respond.... I dont know what you want me to defend. Its my opinion, like i said over and over.... I work in a lab and alter food, so, its just something of interest to me because its essentially my life...

And obviously scaring people gets their attention otherwise they wouldnt do it - this is how the news works, its a bunch of bull **** - all you have to do it watch it to see that.

Smile more - be less miserable :-)

Why should I personally message you? You made your statements here, do you not want to discuss them here? Personally I prefer educating people who might read your post as to how inaccurate it is, so others don't fall for the same lies you have.

Again, the government does not add sugar to food. Private companies make and sell food. This is a fact, it's not up for debate. You're just wrong.

I am a happy, non-miserable person. I called your beliefs dumb, because they are. Same as I would to someone who thinks the Earth is flat. You being wrong about something does not make me an unhappy, mean person.

All the name calling in the world won't make what you said right. And while I may not have held your hand and said, "Aw honey, it's ok. You go right on believing any false thing that makes you happy!" that doesn't make me mean. If anything you could probably use more people in your life who are straight and honest with you, as opposed to feeling that manipulating the facts is ok so long as it inspires some kind of change in your life.

Learn more, believe facts.

I got to go have a meeting with the research leader - apparently my job here doesn't actually exist! All this time... I've been driving all the way here and going through the motions for nothing - I must have been dreaming this entire time - this entire government facility is a facade, a huge holgrame, a figment of my imagination?? Who knows, Im just glad there are so many better educated people out there than I who can point out that what i do for a living is actually just a scene from the god damned movie the matrix. Im going to go eat a candy bar and see if i can fly.

There is no reason to go off the deep end. The government does not provide food for the majority of the population, nor is what it generates from your facility the reason that many Americans are obese.

In fact, if you are making MREs, their goal is to provide incredibly calorically dense food in small quantities with a high carb load because soldiers in action don't have a lot of time to eat, and I'm sure starving to death with no energy does not make a good fighter. That said, many people active in the military who are likely to be eating MREs are usually in pretty good shape, and are not adversely affected by the sugar you are adding in your lab. Why? Because their caloric output equals or exceeds their caloric input.

And if you truly feel that you job is the downfall of the system and you are duping Americans and making them all fat, why don't you change jobs?

If we're going to point fingers I'd like to propose pointing in the direction of General Mills.

Cereal, the idea, in and of itself, is ancient and fine. People have been having breakfast cereal forever. It used to be grains, with cream, butter etc etc and was a brilliant way to start your day.

Most people don't realize that when you feed your kids/family the modern manifestation of cereal, you're feeding them something akin to a candy bar in nutrition. And it tastes so dang good no one has the 1/2 cup serving size. So if it has 30g sugar in once serving, and your kid has two bowls, your angel just unknowingly scarfed down 60g of sugar. That is a LOT! And that's just to start the day off.

General Mills goes right into elementary schools (as does Coke) and advertises, promotes, hands out freebies, donates to the school in exchange for promotions and putting signs up in the schools. It's outside the scope of what you would expect. It's predatory. Kids do not have the physical ability to use logic, rationalize, and moderation. They're kids. Their brain is still developing. You tell them to drink Coke & Lucky Charms and they will.

It works and that's why the keep on doing it.

I went to my daughter school assembly one morning and the principal went in front of the school and held up boxes of General Mills cereals. She stated verbatim in the microphone to every child in the school looking on "When you see these cereals int the store tell your parents to buy them!"

When educational authorities that are supposed to be teaching the children health are literally taking pay-offs from junk food companies to push it on the children, I have a problem with that.

I grew up only being allowed to have non-sugary cereals except for our two week vacation. I was obese by the age of 12 or so due to overconsumption of foods in general (including cereal without sugar added; grapenuts are awesome, but who eats half a cup of them?!). I no longer eat cereal at all because as a reactive hypoglycemic, it doesn't go well (because I never balanced it with eggs or everything else the commercials tell you to do). I'm still overweight.

If we really want to point fingers, we need to point at ourselves in the mirror.

Hail Hydra...

Did you watch last night's episode?

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Hang on - no spoilers please.

We get the show on a Friday night in the UK so I haven't seen the latest!

I actually haven't watched at all except for the first 3-4 episodes because I couldn't get into it. Everyone is saying that now after the new movie released, they've gotten really good. I'm thinking I'm going to have to go back and watch all the old ones and catch up.

I have been a PTA board member for over 20 years and was highly active in my sons' schools. I functioned on the local and national levels for years. I don't know of any schools or school boards that allow manufacturers to promote foods or products that cause children to become obese. Since overeating causes obesity, how are the schools causing this when they aren’t responsible for the children total diets? Cereal and sodas will only become the demons if those items push the calories children eat into a surplus.

Branstin, when the National Free School Lunch Program is covering the breakfast and lunch of children in poverty, it is safe to say they are responsible for the majority of the diet, 2/3 of it.

It's almost a work of magic to put a home-cooked dinner on the table every night, there's no way to track everything our children will intake and adjust the macros of their meals accordingly.

I'm sure as a parent, at the end of the day you and I both aim for presenting our perception of healthy and try to have a nice chatty bonding dinner, utterly blind to how many kcal or what macros your child took in that day, and just hope for the best, that they won't over eat but take in the perfect balance of nutrients for optimal health.

No?

AsaThorsWoman: I don’t agree it is safe to make that assumption at all. I worked all of my childrens lives and it was not magic for me to make my children eating habits a priority. I never once thought about blaming the school or anyone else for that matter. Even though I worked during the time my sons were growing up, I made it my business to know what they were eating at school as well as home. Yes, it was a challenge but it was also my job as their parent. Who is to blame for all of the other children who eat at school and didn't become obese? Are the schools responsible for that as well?