Proof the United States Government is a Joke
And they'll pry your Three Musketeers bar from your dead, fat fingers.
This is one of the craziest things that’s happened in recent memory, and nobody in the media nor regular people conversing in bars and coffee shops noticed or cared about it, even though it’s bizarre enough to qualify as the type of fact that catatonic mental patients mutter over and over for forty years before expiring.
In 2021, the Food and Drug Administration started recommending how many grams of processed, that is Added Sugar, that you should be consuming, and displaying it on nutrition labels.
Shockingly, the number isn’t zero. It’s 50 grams per day.
That’s the amount of sugar in a pint glass of Coke, with no ice. It’s a lot, enough make an otherwise healthy person noticeably less healthy, and less healthy looking.
Nutrition labels on food and drinks now list Fat (including Saturated Fat and Trans Fat), Cholesterol, Sodium, Carbohydrates (including Fiber, Natural Sugars, and now Added Sugars), and Protein, as well as whatever vitamins and minerals the product contains.
What really stands out about the Added Sugars category is that it’s the only one of these compounds that has zero nutritional benefit, and can easily be eliminated, because it’s an indulgence.
It’s like saying you should get a certain amount of Instagram scrolling done every day, or smoke a certain amount of cigarettes.
People have been eating everything else on the label for tens and thousands of years, and you cannot live normally without some amount of fats, carbohydrates, sodium and protein.
Cholesterol occurs in all animal proteins, so that’s just part of a package deal, and the healthiest meal you can think of, maybe a big hunk of grilled salmon, has a ton of cholesterol in it.
It’s not bad for you. Neither are fats or unprocessed foods with carbs in them.
Apparently the Food and Drug Administration, which comes up with the nutrition labels, are basing the Added Sugars recommendation on the recommendations of a fellow government agency, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
This agency writes the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which recommends Added Sugars should be “Less than 10 percent of total calories per day.”
Again, everyone, whether they admit it or not, if they are brain damaged from huffing paint or if they work for the CDC, understands that Added Sugars should actually represent zero percent of your total calories per day, whether they actually do or not.
So, according to these two government agencies, based on the standard being used, the 2,000 calorie diet, you should not exceed 50 grams of added sugars per day.
If you are training for an Ironman triathlon and consuming 10,000 calories per day, you should be drinking about five cans of Dr. Pepper, based on the expert recommendations.
I’m having a difficult time coming up with a rationale for why the government is encouraging people to participate in an unhealthy behavior instead of just telling people that it’s bad for them and to stop it, as we are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, where a third of Americans are obese, and another third are overweight.
I understand sugar is difficult to avoid in this country, but doesn’t this speak of a homely mother talking to her child in his OshKosh B’Gosh, a quaint country cottage in present day Ukraine, just a few miles from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown, and saying to her little toe-headed lad, “Now Nikola, sprinkle some of those plutonium flakes on your carrots, but not too much now.”
Or maybe in Lesotho, a landlocked country in southern Africa, where a quarter of the population has HIV or AIDS.
The public health agencies in that country, which are not quite as well funded as those in the United States, recommend abstinence and safe sex, they don’t say, “Have random sex with strangers in bathroom stalls, but not more than five people a week!”
Why isn’t the recommendation zero?
Here’s another, mostly unrelated fact: The Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees air travel, limits a pilot, a pilot who is flying the airplane you’re on, limits their blood alcohol level to .04 percent, or half of what is legal to drive.
Is it half as difficult and dangerous to fly a plane as drive a car, or a hundred times?
WHY ISN’T IT ZERO!?!?!
I get it, the sugar lobby is powerful and the United States government is owned by corporations, but don’t you get the feeling that it’s not really a conspiracy when people say they want to keep us fat, complacent, and stupid?
Honest question: Are they trying to kill us?
Whatever. I’m going to go drink my government recommended daily value of Mountain Dew, nothing is wrong, just breathe.