Food Gestapo Seek A Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, Sugar

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Nanny State: The food police who've targeted everything from salt to Happy Meals now set their sights on regulating sugar as a controlled substance to fight obesity. The fat we should fear most, though, is overweight government.

The pursuit of happiness, one of those unalienable rights endowed to us by our Creator, is under assault once again by those who spend every waking moment worrying that somebody somewhere is actually enjoying his or her life without government supervision.

In an article titled "The Toxic Truth About Sugar," published in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (where else?) said worldwide consumption of sugar has tripled over the last 50 years and is now contributing to 35 million annual deaths, even if sugar-coated corn flakes aren't listed as the causes of death.

Whether these unfortunate victims of what may be called "cereal killers" died happy is also not recorded.

The researchers cite three major health risks — alcohol, tobacco and sugar.

"Two of these three — tobacco and alcohol — are最新热片
regulated by governments to protect public health, leaving one of the primary culprits behind this worldwide health crisis unchecked," the researchers write.

We are not insensitive to the reality that abuse of any substance, from salt to sugar, can contribute to myriad health risks. Yet we are concerned that an overbearing nanny state, aided and abetted by the food police, will contribute to sterile, joyless lives where everything on our menu must be approved by the government.

Some researchers argue that saturated fat, not sugar, is the root cause of obesity and chronic disease. Others say that highly processed foods with simple carbohydrates are to blame.

Still others believe that a lack of physical activity is the root of our health problems.

It could, of course, be a matter of all these issues. Should we regulate everything we eat and do?

We have made the argument regarding ObamaCare that if government can force you to buy health insurance, it can force you to do or buy anything.韩国热片
Could it require us to buy health club memberships or to eat only health foods on the grounds it would reduce the costs we impose on society by our free lifestyle choices?

We recently editorialized about government overreach when San Francisco passed a city ordinance barring fast-food restaurants from using toys as an incentive to buy the children's meals that the food police consider dangerous and unhealthy junk food. We argued then and we argue now that zealots in and out of government should not be able 悬疑电视剧
to restrict people's inherent freedom to make decisions for themselves and that health is a personal, not a public, issue, a choice made by adults for themselves and for their children.