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New York City's Mayor Bloomberg seeks to ban certain establishments from offering sugared drink sizes above 16 ounces.  No word how this shall impact my 32 ounce McDonald's *half* sweetened, *half* unsweetened habit which gives me the larger drink but with the limit of the 16 ounce size sweetened.  No mention is given to the sugar-high fructose corn syrup issue. This makes me wonder about the pre-cigarette mercantilism days -- aka the early 1900s cocaine demonification scares of the infamous USDA-AMA-APhA drug racketeering to get people to fear cocaine in any form in order to clear the way for the increased marketing of Tobacco cigarettes -- when Coca Cola and other such soft drinks contained cocaine.  Small amounts of cocaine, often 3-4 milligrams per fluid ounce, or 6 or 7 milligrams per fluid ounce as in Coca wines such as Vin Mariani. Do the math.  If say a Coca leaf extract or even isolated cocaine beverages contained for the sake of arg...

Advertising artificial appetite enhancement sold as "nutrition" Today I did something that has gotten me p***ed off again. Was out with a friend. We go to a gasoline station/convenience store. Each of us gets a beverage and some snacks. The beverage I chose today was 'Chocolate Nutrament complete nutrition drink' by Nestle Nutrition. Never heard of Nestle Nutrition till today but have long heard of Nestlie- you know the outfit founded over a century ago fond well known and liked for its chocolates. I figure- ok, I see it has no high fructose corns syrup- a major bane of gasoline-convenience store drinkery.  Suger is the second ingredient after the first, skim milk, and the third, canola oil.  Does not sound that appetizing, but the choices are not good at such places, so I say, what the hey, I'll try it. After its paid for I take it, crack it open and empty the contents into me.  Ok, so far. Than fast forward about 50 minutes, and I start to feel it, BAD- a sensat...