Also what is sold at the food store. Canned soups have a lot of sugar, cereals, yogurt, donuts and cinnamon rolls, Mac and cheese, ramen noodles, Kool aid and Tampico.
There goes Crisco and margarines. But that is in manufactured food.
Do you all ever fry stuff and see the oil smoking? Or grill meat brushed with barbecue sauce? Or fry the onion in lard with tomato sauce to make peas and rice? There, you have been making your own transfat.
ohdrap4 says...
Also what is sold at the food store.
Canned soups have a lot of sugar, cereals, yogurt, donuts and cinnamon rolls, Mac and cheese, ramen noodles, Kool aid and Tampico.
So they cannot touch that.
Apparently this worked in Mexico.
Not to worry, they will come after these soon.
On 'Can't tax Bahamas into better health'
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ohdrap4 says...
> There has to be a balance between profitability and affordability.
Is this why the taxes on each gallon is of the order of $1.61, to balance the $0.54 margin?
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ohdrap4 says...
The old coca cola ads never saud it depends.
It saud IT IS .
If anything, the Bahamian populations presents a very high incidence of metabolic diseases.
I am not even a doctor but I know many young people on dialysis because they never drink water, only juice and soda .
On 'Can't tax Bahamas into better health'
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ohdrap4 says...
It will be more inclusive.
It will include the illiterate.
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ohdrap4 says...
They are just obeying the WHO:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti…
On 'Can't tax Bahamas into better health'
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ohdrap4 says...
Because it ignores the impact on insulin and blood sugar levels of sugar.
If you eat bacon, your blood sugar does not go up. And you do not get addicted to it
Not so with sugar .
When the low fat diets were taught to people, the food industry pumped it up with sugar.
That is why nowadays kids have diabetes type two and non alcoholic fatty liver disease.
The high fructose corn syrup in coca cola is the worst offender in fatty liver disease .
On 'Can't tax Bahamas into better health'
Posted 6 June 2023, 5:43 p.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
> "It's calories in, calories out. If you eat more on a daily basis than you burn up, you gain weight.
This is the lie that Coca Cola popularized in the ad during the Super Bowl back in 1983 or 84.
Of course they had their own motives.
If they take away my Coca cola, I will get the Kool Aid recipe from birdiestrachan.
On 'Can't tax Bahamas into better health'
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ohdrap4 says...
Not at the moment. They are just obeying the WHO, who said sugary beverages. Put it in the law but underneath the FOIA in a drawer somewhere.
Butter and cream are not a sin. Margarine is.
But right now, the WHO masters just say sugary beverages. Not candy, or fast food, or anything else.
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ohdrap4 says...
Pay back the loans the govt took from National Insurance to waste in poorly built buildings.
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ohdrap4 says...
> elimination of trans fats legislation
There goes Crisco and margarines. But that is in manufactured food.
Do you all ever fry stuff and see the oil smoking? Or grill meat brushed with barbecue sauce?
Or fry the onion in lard with tomato sauce to make peas and rice?
There, you have been making your own transfat.
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