Sugar Addiction
I have my own theory about Halloween. I think halloween is really a promotional event for the sugar drug industry to distribute their samples. Think about it. Sugar based products are addictive and hazardous to your physical and mental health. Yet, every year, we have a night where we hand out sugar based products to children. If I were involved with the sugar industry, halloween would be my favorite day.
In fact, I’m suprised that the candy industry doesn’t give out free bags of candy to people to distribute on halloween. It gets their drug samples out there to peddle to children. The kids eat their drugs when they get home, then days later they go through sugar withdrawal and go buy more sugar to get their “fix”. Then, more cases of hyperactivity are reported, and as a result, the pharm indrustry cashes in on their sales of ritalin.
But really, sugar is all around us. It is not much different from the illegal drug industry, only that it is legal. I would say 98% of the sugar industry’s profits are derived from addiction. All it takes is one serving of cake or ice cream, and then you will go back for more even though you might not be hungry any longer. This is where the sugar industry really profits. So much of our food out there is pumped full of sugar. It is in everything from ketchup, salad dressing, cookies, ice cream, sports drinks, fruit juice drinks, pizza, you name it. The food industry has learned that if they add this harmful worthless substance to their food products, they will sell more. They can careless if it affects your health. They can careless if you become addicted to it. They can careless if you develop mood swings from it. They can careless if you become obese from it. They can careless if your teeth rot out.
So what about me? What do I do? Well, in my household, I view the consumption of sugar not so much just strictly from a diet and health point of view, but rather from the point of view of not wanting to put money into the pockets of an industry that creates sugar addiction. I view it the same way as maybe going to a strip club. When my buddies go out for “guys” night, and want to hit a strip club, we have all realized to stay away from those types of places because we don’t want to put money into the pockets of the scum that own those types of places. We’re guys, and of course we like women, but I don’t want to put money into some mafia drug runner type of loser that owns a strip club. So us guys don’t go to those places. And the same is with the sugar industry. I don’t want to put money into the pockets of some group of jerks that consist of men and women that live in places like the Hamptons that never had to work a day in their lives because they are major shareholders or board members in corporations that produce refined sugar based products. Of course a lot will say this is an extreme point of view, or sugar is part of our food chain and has never really killed anyone. So basically, when I do eat food that falls into the realm of “sweets”, I keep it all organic and I use willpower to limit myself. Last week, I did have some organic cookies that used organic sugar that didn’t have the nutrients stripped out of it, but I only ate a few and they tasted every bit as good as the cheap super high refined sugar cookies you find at the grocery store. Ever since I adopted this attitude, my waistline decreased quite a bit and my blood pressure has gone down. And yet, I can still do better I think.
From what I see day to day is that America’s waistline and blood pressure is a direct reflection of the ethics involved in the ruthless capitalistic nature of our society. I am all for capitalism and believe in the opportunity for any given individual to prosper. But I also believe in ethics and morals. Major corporations throw ethics and morals out the window. If it means making an extra buck at the expense of a population’s health, then they will by all means do so. They view people as animals. Don’t fall victim to their immoral greed. Eat as natural as you can. Eat what nature has provides and not what the sugar drug industry provides.
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