Sugar Tax & Public Health Campaigns | Med School Interviews
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- Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2020
- Was the UK sugar tax effective? What are the advantages and challenges when thinking about public health campaigns? All great questions to consider for your med school interview!
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the only thing that will happen is that when there is a sale people will buy them at bulk and sell them at the price they bought it at or raise it by a little bit after the sale is over
Very clear and structured video. My stance on this is against the sugar tax because it is unfair on those with diabetes. They may require sugary food, and of course, the quickest way to raise blood sugar is leaning towards confectionary.
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Hi Ollie, thank you again for the great videos. At 6:06 you said "it's not necessarily unhealthy for example for someone to be obese". What did you mean by this? I know that medical conditions like having an underactive thryoid gland and Crushing's syndrome can cause obesity and not just bad diets but surely even have a high body fat % is unhealthy regardless of the cause? Particularly if it's in the gut area.
All I was trying to get at was that BMI contextually isn't always the best measure of health. As you say there are many medical conditions that can cause weight gain, and BMI doesn't consider things like muscle percentage and water weight - but high BMI and high body fat percentage aren't necessarily the same thing. That's all I meant!
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Sugar tends to lower cortisol levels and cushing's syndrome is caused by excess cortisol, so it might help you in that case, as long as the foods you eat are lean - not cookies and ice cream, but strawberries with a pouring of tate 'n' lyle. If you're eating McDonald's 3 times a day, half a pint of sugar is not going to help you (although it might make you not manage one of the McDonald's so could be a net win). Ketogenic diets tend to raise cortisol (and slow metabolism) so avoid them.
My argument is if you drink a sugary drink, it's more filling than an artificial sweetener drink, so then there is a risk of the hunger being passed on to fattening chocolate, doughnuts, cake and ice cream and taking in more than twice as many calories as the sugary drink due to the added fat that doesn't satisfy the hunger anywhere near as well as sugar. I've added sugar to water before to stop me craving junk, or added it to fruit to keep me full longer, provided I'm getting my vitamins and minerals and protein elsewhere as sugar isn't nutritionally complete.
There seems to be no fat tax, which is where all the calories that don't fill you up lie, so you eat more of them effortlessly. Fat: creating thousand calorie morsels since the dawn of time. Also, protein - though the building block of life, can stress the kidneys in large amounts, certainly if you eat lots of meat and don't drink much water. Excess protein often gets turned into sugar, but produces acidic waste products during metabolism.
You will usually find lots of fat and protein in the meat and dairy industry, that can pay lawmakers a fat bribe in many nations, thus attention turns to sugar, which only adversely affects the insulin resistant. This is why you hear all the stuff about inflammation turn up in google search, because cells that receive glucose from the blood stream are so clogged with lipids that the pancreas needs to chemically and metaphorically shout at them to accept any glucose, and the high levels of insulin in the blood can indeed cause an inflammatory response in a type 2 diabetic. Hence they need to trickle carbohydrate into the bloodstream very slowly (e.g. nibbling a few grains of undercooked - to keep the glycemic index down - brown rice every now and then) using the digestive system to do what the glycogen stores normally would, because there is a locked door of grease to them. They also need to eat very little fat or the problem won't go away.
When a non-diabetic eats a triple decker white bread, jam and icing sugar sandwich with a stick of rock and a pint of coca cola to wash it down, the blood sugar rises for a while, a dash of insulin enables the sugar to be transported and all is easily stored in glycogen and re-released at an appropriate rate. If the glycogen is full, the person likely won't be hungry.
If a type 2 diabetic does the same, the body attempts to do the same, but realizes the door to the glycogen stores is jammed. The pancreas thinks, we've got to get this blood sugar down, maybe try ramming the door and adds more insulin, when that doesn't work, the body craves a lot of water in order to try and urinate out excess blood sugar. There are health effects to chronically high blood sugar and insulin levels, and one of them is inflammation.
Any economic argument is outweighed by the reduced productivity of people being ill and dying younger.
Its only fair for a major cause of an issue to be held responsible for the aftermath...the revenue could also be used to supplement better food choices too so the low-income population can benefit, and not just healthcare directly.