exactly... the insult was an attempt to end the conversation. i get bored repeating the same thing to person after person. and yes, it infuriates me how people can go around living their entire lives without a basic understanding of the foods they eat on a daily basis.

yes, sugar is a poison! poison: a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.

sugar intake, like nicotine is addictive and can at least encourage the development of major health issues, as well as emotional instabilities--that could eventually lead to both depression and violent behavior; and i assume has a hand in causing many other diseases 'diseases' like ADHD.

why? it's been suggested many diseases can be managed through strictly healthy diets (i don't feel like looking it up for you). but consider it, if a healthy diet can cure someones ailments, can't we assume an unhealthy diet could be the cause of those ailments?

BTW, you made no points by saying that sugar is common foodstuff, and can be used for energy... you just sound ignorant. it's use is still unwise; whether or not it's easily accessible, and whether or not it can also have a desirable impact. if you wanted to you could eat bark... big deal. and like i said, drugs get you high, provide energy, and can help people relax.

obviously you missed the point of my original comparison to drugs and supplements. it's not a question of what you can do, or what positive effects sugar has, or whether it's easily accessible... the important question is an economic one--and i don't mean financial: is the benefit worth the cost?

you're surrounded by the opportunity to make bad choices pretty consistently day by day... how often would you say you smoke a cigarette, drive drunk, run red lights, steal from the infirm, shoot up heroin, et cetera, et cetera... some of these things are done hundereds of times a day just in america, which ones are considered worse is unimportant, they're all bad choices.

the human body wasn't designed to digest and use simple carbs for energy (it's a fact). and we need to accept it, acknowledge it, and adapt accordingly.

that energy boost you're referring to, you can get easily from the complex carbs in the 'healthy' food you eat, only this one comes without the nasty side effects. the energy from complex carbs just lasts longer--a good thing, and doesn't spike suddenly--also a good thing, so the difference isn't as easily perceived by the individual experiencing it. but then there's no crash... or side effects, cause the energy is easily maintained over long periods of time.

i just described a natural diet for human beings. consider the following:

sugar, as in the great white death, wasn't part of the human diet, globally, until when exactly?

Answer: Indians discovered how to crystallize sugar during the Gupta dynasty, around AD 350. And sugar wasn't produced in any decent quantity until the 1390s when the development of a better sugar cane press doubled the juice obtained from the cane during production (wikipedia).

the agricultural revolution took place around 13,000 years ago. we only started eating sugar on a regular basis around 600 years ago as a species, and our intake levels have skyrocketed in the last hundred year. so, people have been around forever in comparison to how long we've been eating sugar, especially at the levels we do today in the US of A.

do you really think behavior like this isn't going to have a severe effect on our health and abilities? the question is really whether or not it's a good effect or not. and from my experiences, i've concluded that it's not good at all, far from it.

you're argument that one should eat it anyway cause it's there anyway, is as good as saying one should wrap their lips around the tailpipe of their car and inhale, cause that crap is in your air anyway.

and i suppose my kids should do drugs occasionally too, cause the statistics suggest that at some point they'll be exposed to them anyway... and rugs can be fun, relaxing, or energizing.

no wait, we should all just pop vitamin and caffeine pills and work ourselves to death cause we can be far more productive when juiced up, and why eat real food when it takes longer than just popping a pill.

i used a lot of words, but all i just said was. you're stupid!!!

media hitler!

needed correction, he's not trying to kill people, he's out to remove our freedom to access information via any means we can at any time we can.

this ability is something obviously beneficial to the masses, but not to those who want to earn money off the information. which makes him self interested like hitler in many ways. and to succeed he would have to enact a kind of software genocide, via courtroom death-camps and internet protocol starvation...

but he's not hitler in the sense that hitler holds partial responsibility for killing millions of innocent people. the difference here is a pretty big deal, and not recognizing it does a disservice to those who died.

okay, i dont get why... but my first post got pushed down below my second post.... at least on the page i can see.... this is my third post.

this doesn't seem logical.

conversely, some juice and slow burning carbs, like granola can be used to increase energy and the speed of mental activities without influencing a drop in cognitive ability... at least from what i've experienced.

but why would somebody want to become accustom to sugar? considering it's impacts on a persons health and mental abilities.

i've seen similar behavior from all the children i've known who didn't have regular sugar intake.

both when i babysat, while i was younger... and still now that i'm older and my friends and family members are starting to have children.

all it takes is a candy bar or a coke and their mental capabilities go out the window. most people only notice their hyper activity... i've always payed attention to how people think and respond to stimuli.

i second this motion... simple sugars were not made to be eaten by man!

fruit sugars and some more complex carbs don't seem to cause any problems worth mentioning.

but my six year old is still brain dead three days after staying with grandma; where he eats sugary foods and drinks coke.

we don't eat sugared foods in our house, and only drink juice occasionally during the afternoon. and i home-school the boy so i definitely recognize the difference, every time!!

Note: when we do splurge and eat/drink junk at the movies (rare) we wait a few days before doing any school work.

u should read my bio

the robot only follows the acceptable commands of an authorized human, not just anyone... a complete psycho with a gun couldn't command any random robot to go steal some drugs from the corner store. they were still required to follow logical rules.

notice in "i, robot" the robot running with the woman's purse didn't stop when the police officer demanded it to.