#it’s more profitable for industry to tell you not to eat sugar than to unprocess itself to become not addicting | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

qr-sa · 26 days ago

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what is true is that the tobacco industry bought out the food industry when the gov cracked down on smoking and addiction, and then set their flavor scientists / addiction experts onto this new market to intentionally create addiction in an even greater population

dude not to be a bitch but starting my new job and spending every day surrounded by normies is really giving me a good long look at how fucked up the rhetorical landscape surrounding food and fatness is. the other week i overheard a guy confidently saying that the body doesn't actually require sugar and that if it wasn't for our dastardly perfidious taste buds we'd never crave it(???). just now my manager showed me this video of some dude scaremongering about pringles by saying that their ratio of sugar/salt/fat is CALCULATED to TRICK THE BRAIN into WANTING MORE. bitch you mean they made an effort to make their commercially produced snacks taste good? somebody phone the fucking fire department

#like YES this discourse around fatness and sugar is kind of wrong #and there’s tons of misinformation discrimination and straight up destructive idiocy #the truth is not in between more like a third point somewhere else #but given what I’ve read on metabolism and how food relates to the process #it’s more profitable for industry to tell you not to eat sugar than to unprocess itself to become not addicting #the lobbyists all think they’re doing a bad thing but they can’t let go unless regulation forces them all to move in lockstep

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