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Human beings aren't property.

Depends on the recipe and quality of tomatoes you use to make ketchup. It can be very delicious and much lower in calories than Heinz.

Sounds to me like he doesn't know what real love is. Been married 21 years and my husband has seen the good, the bad and the ugly. Sometimes all at once! Real love sees through all that. I agree with all the kittening going on above me! Sorry this happened.

Lol @ any third grader would... but not on this forum! So weird! Taxing based on added sugar seems reasonable and doable.

I don't think all jobs or careers should be paid the same. I do think everyone should have access to equal healthcare regardless whether they can pay for it. The reasons why they can't pay do not matter to me.

Mean people suck.

I used the HPV vaccine as something to start the transfer of me (and my husband) being in charge of my daughter's healthcare to her. I gave her literature from the doctor and made her discuss it with him. We did give our opinions which was to get it. My daughter chose to get it although she waited 3 weeks after the…

Thanks for sharing. Gives hope to newly survivors. Happy for you all :smiley:

You do realize that many people can be healthy after cancer treatment right? Some show no evidence of disease for many years after treatment and die of old age.

My question is why there needs to be food in the workplace. How is it a treat if there's food all the time? My husband's workplace provides snacks every day. Yeah everyone should have self control and all that but that doesn't explain why the food is there to begin with. It is the same thing as all the snacking that goes…

We are self-insured. Have been for years. Our standard of living would be different if for not paying the high premiums. I moaned about it for years until I got cancer. Turns out those high premiums are a drop in the bucket compared to paying for cancer treatment. Very thankful for the excellent medical I received and…

So should society pick up the tab or should we let them die?

Me too. They will be the first to scream "shock my heart" and "give me chemo" so they won't die. They don't understand that you can wake up feeling fine and go to bed with cancer. It happens to people every day.

Your tax dollars are already subsiding people's bad choices. We pay for everyone who doesn't have health insurance. We have been for years. Hospitals are not allowed to deny treatment because pepole can't pay. We pay through higher insurance premiums and taxes. I don't want to pay for people's bad choices either. However,…

No.

I don't have a study to share but do think artificial sugar does something to make me want to eat more. It stays in check if I limit it. Only like it in drinks and packaged foods. I have tried baking with it but haven't had much success.

Right! Forbidding foods isn't a character flaw.

To lose weight you must eat less than you have previously. Isn't that true for all? You have to restrict something. Portions and/or specific foods. There is commonality with both forbidding and moderating.

Exactly! While CICO is how to lose and maintain for all, everyone has to figure out how to apply the principle so that it fits in their life. Definitely not a one-size-fits all.

Late night eating is my downfall. I agree with the others who say to leave calories for it. I find that I will skip eating something during the day just so I will have extra calories at night. I find it easier to save calories than not to eat then. I used to try not to eat after 7pm. It felt like torture. Skinny Cow ice…

No because if I find I am overeating, those food will move back to the forbidden list. The list changes depending on my calorie goal and what I want to eat. For a long time Oreos couldn't be around. Right now I could care less about them. If I find myself overeating them, they will go back to the forbidden list. My weight…

I have no problem with "forbidding" (for right now) foods that I will not moderate and foods that that make me crazy not eating them. I think it's self torture to have those foods around when there's a good chance I will want to overeat them. The foods are not satisfying to me in the amount that will fit in my goals. Not…

Lol! In defense of the thread, there are a few interesting ideas for and against taxing junk food. The rest including mine...

Sure they know that fried food has oil but do they know how many calories there are in fried foods. Have you not seen the treads here from people saying they knew it was a lot but didn't know just how many calories they were overeating? People on MFP know. The population at large not so much.

I am talking about requiring companies to list calories on TV commercials and print advertising. I do like when products I want have it listed like that. Mostly because I don't need my glasses to read it on the nutritional label. Restaurants too. Applebee's was advertising bottomless french fries baskets for awhile. I…

I would support requiring companies to show the calories in a clear way both in print and media advertising. Awareness is lacking in how many calories people consume on a daily basis. If people saw how many calories Doritos, regular soda or whatever has everytime they are advertised, they might stop overeating them.

Ha! The aggressiveness here about other people's plates is bizarre.

Sorry you are having a bad time. It is no fun feeling this way while looking after kids, husband, ER patients and the house. Not a lot of time left for you. Reading your post was exhausting. Can't imagine it. I would look into having a cleaning service come in once or biweekly. I would also set up a routine for keeping…

I would think about taxing regular soda and other foods that are calorie bombs without much nutritional value (that's how I define junk). I want more education in schools about how calories count. I also want phys ed returned like it was when I was growing up. A class period of real physical activity every day. We ran…

I don't think it adds up to anything meaningful unless you rarely go grocery shopping. If you go weekly your body is used to the activity. Is it a leisurely walk if you are stopping every minute or so to put something in the cart? Think it's dangerous to tell myself something like grocery shopping counts as exercise.