The cost in human life and money that heroine is claimed to
have incurred is nothing compared to high
fructose corn syrup.
Heroine at least is not legalized yet. The bad effects of heroine are preached
everywhere and the culprits are usually snared fully aware of the effects if not kidnapped and purposefully addicted by gangs with evil intent.
The picture with high fructose
corn syrup is a little different. We pump the coke out of a tap at Mac Donald and stuff
it into our kids growing bodies with disastrous effects. Open tap day or meal was the advert phrase if I remember it right.
Most of this assault is on the liver causing fatty degeneration, yes the
very fatty degeneration associated with alcohol abuse. Pancreas, subcutaneous area and omentum is not spared .
Don’t drink alcohol as you are only a baby, but we will slip you a
coke or Mac Donald instead. It is like saying don’t smoke dagga to save your growing lungs, but I will slip
you dagga tea instead.
We lead our kids to our addiction waterhole and force them
to drink. We present them with no alternative other than starvation if they
don’t join in the gorge and drink yourself dumb arsenal.
The complicity of the
government in hauling the culprits in if you compare this to the campaign
against drugs like heroine crossing the Mexican border into America is
worrying.
Alcohol not only cause fatty degeneration, hepatitis,
cirrhotic liver disease and hepatoma (cancer of the liver) but a myriad of
other effects on the pancreas, brain, muscle, testis to name a few. Whether the
full spectrum will be matched by the high fructose corn syrup, very legalized in food manufacturing, is still to be
proven. Don’t let your kid be the guinea pig in this under handed experiment driven by profits at all costs mentality.
Alcohol is only a fermented product of the sugars we pump
our kids with on daily basis, not much different. The possibility therefore that the effects could
be similar is not that far fetched. Science is as culpable in this carnage as
the government is.
Our only mitigation is that we gain nothing by promoting it
or keeping quiet about it. That though might not be enough for us to escape the noose
in a few years time when ignorance might be a crime.
If biochemistry and physiology of health are the elements of every mix, then results are assured
Insightful and true. I've been trying with all I can to stop my kids from being given these things. Fizzy drinks
ReplyDeleteWon't be easy. It's more addictive than anything we know. We need intervention from the law and the medical field to do its part
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