Prenatal phthalate exposure linked to altered information processing in infants
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1. Diesel/Petrol/Thermal Coal - air pollution
2. Plastics and Phthalates - hormone disruption, land and sea pollution
3. Sugar - obesity
If anyone has any surplus energy, money, or political power, we would strongly benefit from these ingredients being removed as much as possible from human environments.
Also diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, tooth decay, depression... The list goes on.
You can consume sugar, be skinny and still be unhealthy.
Sugar is probably worse than Corona and we're doing nothing about it.
If it can be counteracted, it's only with measures that don't depend on individual choice.
Also for covid apart from old age the main risk is with all the same cardiovascular issues that sugar is a a causative agent for, so by decreasing sugar consumption we could probably lower covid deaths as well.
Maybe a tax on sugar like on cigarettes. One of the main reasons for our high sugar consumption is the food industriy's reliance on sugar to replace taste from proper ingredients. If sugar is more expensive than using quality ingredients the food industry would have a profit motive to move away from it.
On the private consumption side, I bought my 1kg of sugar about 2 years ago. If it costs 50€ to buy instead of 50 cents, I could still afford my birthday cake, but would be nudged to consume less.
Whole grain bread and pasta's don't have enough fiber to really change their glycemic index, even whole grain bread has a worse glycemic index than Coke.
It's no wonder that they expect that 60% of all Americans will be obese by 2030. Insulin, it's a helluva of thing.
4. Heavy metals