From: Archimedes Plutonium on
Hooray, yesterday I stepped on the scale and am finally back to 137
lbs, or 62 kilograms. Why 62 kilograms? Because throughout my High
School and College years, I was that weight.

During High School, I would sometimes get these horrible headaches
after eating salty potato chips. From there on out, I never had
another headache, or rarely. So I eliminated salt from my diet for I
would have enough salt in the food I buy such as pizza or
bread etc.

When I reached age 50, I started gaining weight and that my
exceedingly high rate of metabolism could no longer keep me trim, no
matter how much food I ate.
And I seemed to not be able to get back to 137 lbs but
every winter would go as high as 150 lbs, and then
I would fast, losing about 3 lbs per day.

So now, finally, this year, I said enough of this bouncing back and
forth from 150 lbs to 137 lbs. The solution is as easy as the salt and
headache solution.
Just never buy anymore foods with sugar in them. That means no more
cakes, cookies, ice cream, candies, marmalade and jams. About the
sweetest foods I eat now are the fresh fruits. The strawberries and
oranges.
I especially love minneolas. Sometimes I break my diet and will buy an
ice cream bar, but seldom.

And now I am back to 137 lbs and I feel no compulsion to go back to my
old habits. My stomach has shrunk also, and is not sending any craving
messages to my brain. I have thus found this "new normal eating
habit".
And in the grocery store, I just pass up the candy, cookie, cake, ice
cream isles. I never buy any more sacks of sugar. For lemonade I use
honey.

Why so drastic? Well, Diabetes is a horrible disease
and once you get it, you never get rid of it.

So now, how to make the world better than the obesity and overweight
and diabetes? Well, look at how we handled tobacco, that filthy
unhealthy habit. We tax it to death.

So how do we get the nation of the USA back on a health road? We can
preach but it will not be effective.
What will be effective is that we tax all sugar, raw or in
processed foods and the money goes to the government to reduce debt.
We make it so that fructose or corn sugars and all forms of sweeteners
that cause weight gain to be taxed significantly higher than other
foods. The price of candy, ice cream, cakes and donuts and cookies
should be treble the price they are in stores. Quadruple the price if
people do not get slimmer. Jack the price up 10 fold if we see too
many
obese children. A pack of cigarettes costs what? $5?
Well an ice cream bar should be priced at $5. A soda
pop such as Coca cola should be priced at $10 a bottle.

We maybe able to get the National Debt cut in half after about 4 years
on this sugar tax.


Archimedes Plutonium
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