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The USA doesn't even have ingredients listed out per 100g. Comparing packaged goods is very difficult. The solution is not to tax and spend more money on socialized medicine, its to cut sugar out of packaged food products to reduce diabesity in the first place.

Sugar tax of 1c per 1g added sugar is another easy solution. Use the proceeds to reduce sales taxes on food and drink generally.

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There are two types of Diabetes...type 1 and 2. I don't agree with your comment on reducing obesity as Type 1 is a much different disease than Type 2.

Type 1s actually benefit from the widespread obesity, since it sends a lot of money into drugs and monitors that both type 1 and type 2 use. :)

I argue many Type 2 patients do a VERY POOR job on average on monitoring their diabetes. Many Type 2 still have moderately functioning cells that manufacture insulin...Type 1 have no choice.

I argue the opposite in that Nightscout and other initiatives that predominately serve the Type 1 community help push the advancement of monitoring, etc. that benefit the rest.

Nightscout is a great initiative. Monitoring of type 2 is rapidly improving, especially as CGMs aren’t restricted to type 1s on insurance as much as they sued to be. Increasing the market size of CGMs has led to significant competition.

Thought on treating type 2 is also evolving in ways that don’t benefit type 1 as much. For example, the trend is for pre-diabetes to be taken seriously and detected earlier.

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