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FDA wants to cut sodium in packaged and processed foods by about 20%
(www.nbcnews.com)
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Sodium and sugar are not "bad" for you. Sodiums/salts are arguably an absolute necessity for brain function lol (electrolytes). It's the too much that is the bad part. There's natural sugar in fruits and stuff, which you already know. Blanket statements like "sugar is bad" are dumb.
Maybe if the issue wasn't soo widespread, but the manufactured over abundance has tipped the scales enough that simple statements of sugar/sodium being bad for you (even if not entirely correct) are a step in the right direction.
No, you are wrong and so is your ridiculous statement.
It's not that it's "not entirely correct", it's entirely incorrect. Full stop.
We evolved to seek out sugar. Originally in the form of fruits and berries and whatnot, as its an efficient fast acting carbohydrate for quick energy. It is good for you. Period.
Over consumption due to over abundance and the capitalist profit motive not giving a shit about the consequences on people's health, because muh profits, is why people eat to much of it.
Your solution is to blatantly lie, which is dumb and wrong. Lying is not a step in the right direction ever.
Educate people, and hold capitalists accountable, in the form of violent regulation. You ain't gonna do that cuz you have no power and never will. Lying is dumb. Sugar is good for you in moderation.
Yeah because searching for berries all day is exhausting, ordering a pizza and 2l of coke is not you muppet.
But that doesn't make sugar bad. It makes too much sugar bad, which seems to be what they were saying. Albeit, ineloquently. **Insert thought terminating insult.
Exactly what someone with a sugar addiction would say lol