The UK's "sugar tax" is nothing more than a push to sterilize the nation. ( conspiracy )

submitted by 100LinksToGunter

With the introduction of the sugar tax you can no longer have sugary drinka without paying extra. Sounds great right?

Except companies are avoiding paying it by lowering sugar content and filling it with sweeteners instead. One of the sweeteners "aspartame" is linked with cancer and your nuts not functioning properly!

Maybe it's coincidence, but it rarely ever is.

mag60

I don't know that aspartame is carcinogenic but it definitely is associated with metabolic syndrome. Besides being fuel, sugar regulates energy use by stimulating sweetness receptors in the tongue, which acts downstream on the enteric nervous system. Artificial sweeteners use a different signal transduction pathway, but use the same receptor heterodimer as sugar.

BlockMe

Drink water. Both sugars and artificial sweeteners are bad for you. No one needs this garbage.

Ialwayssaythis

Seems likely.

475677

In reality it's a financial decision to use artificial sweeteners. Not only do their prices stay the same but they can advertise 50% less sugar and calories in the hopes of getting people to drink double their normal intake of sugary drinks.

I don't doubt there's negative side effects from ingesting chemicals we can barely pronounce but it's a financial decision first and foremost for the producers.

Talc

there are serious side effects to ingesting Aspartame, it's a RODENTICIDE which used to be illegal to put in the food chain until someone greased ron reagan's palm. About 10 years ago I read an article about a surgeon having to abandon brain surgery on a patient because aspartame had plasticised parts of the brain and the plastic was chipping the scalpel! The patient died. Don't be that patient, don't eat rat poison, it's even dumber than tide pods!

qwop

someone greased ron reagan's palm

It was Donald Rumsfeld. Isn't that interesting how the necons pop up everywhere.
Just google his name and Aspartame, and lots of fun reading.

Talc

I thought it was Rumsfeld but wasn't quite sure, my once razor sharp memory is starting to fade (with age or too much partying or something). Figured someone would google it, wasn't wrong. Thanks!

Cadster

So its on to sugar now that they've got all the knives and screwdrivers off the streets.

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