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In reply to the discussion: Instead of regulating everyone's sugar intake [View all]lunasun
(21,646 posts)that statistics show have much higher rates of disease ?Or companies providing health insurance declining such folk in to group policies?
"government's role and responsibility should be limited to providing people with the information"
So no medicaid or medicare is affected by an epidemic?
Down the $$ line it becomes more than just an individual freedom problem
Lets not let it be the next lung cancer that for years people tried to deny had to do with smoke and only the rights of smokers ( and the tobacco industry) was an issue
Why repeat history with this new epidemic?
This is one very small step and the fast food places who are hit $$ are complaining the most about the 32oz.
Cases of diabetes skyrocketed in states across the country between 1995 and 2010, and particularly in the South, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, the number of diabetes cases diagnosed in that time period rose by 50 percent or more in 42 different states and by 100 percent or more in 18 states.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/11/15/1198741/american-epidemic-diabetes/?mobile=nc