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Other examples of the global rise in childhood obesity include Malaysia, Japan, and China. In Malaysia, where obesity was once relatively rare, a 1998 survey shows that nearly 17 percent of Malaysian boys and 8 percent of Malaysian girls are obese. In the National Survey of Primary and Middle Schools in Japan, between 1970 and 1997, obesity in 9 year-old children increased three-fold. Further, in Shanghai, China, 7 percent of children are obese, a six-fold increase in 10 years.

Do sugars cause hyperactivity?

In the 1970s, anecdotal reports suggested sugars cause hyperactivity in children. Research, however, failed to confirm this theory. Hyperactivity was not seen in children after consistent high intakes or single large doses of sugars.

In a recent study, researchers examined the effect of eating sucrose (table sugar) on the behavior of children aged 6 to 10 years. The children were chosen for the study because their parents believed the children reacted negatively to sucrose. Preschool children were also studied. They are often considered sensitive to some foods. The researchers found no differences in the behavior of the children when they ate higher-than-normal amounts of sucrose compared to when they ate diets low in sucrose.

Actually, this and other research suggests sugars tend to calm both children and adults. This effect could go unnoticed due to other influences. For instance, the excitement of a birthday party or Halloween could override the calming effect of sugars.

There's no point trying to tell you how much we do know, Debbie Downer, because you're determined to hate humanity and life and existence because [God says so | I'm emo and I hate myself | My life sucks and I want yours to suck too].

But just to drop a few clue-by-fours: Wrong, (the majority of computers on earth, those used in cars, will run correctly forever except for a hardware fault), wrong (the United States alone grows enough food to feed 2.4 billion people, even after wasting so much on feeding cattle), and irrelevant (the social conditions which create and drive poverty have nothing to do with artificial satellites).

I didn't plan it. I'm not the one who decreased the American workforce by half in just 5 years.

Decrease is a little vague...unemoployment rate is 1.2% higher than it was 5 years ago. ( reuters.com)

And with that trade deficit we'll be able to afford to do so exactly how long? We already can't feed our own population.

US per capita income: $40,100

China per capita income: $ 5,600

(Source www.cia.gov)

We aren't exactly hurting compared to the average Chinese, especially considering US citizens only spend 6.4% of their income on food (the lowest percentage of reported countries). (Source ific.org). No one has to starve in the USA; tragically there are those who still do, but there is plenty of food and money to go around. It's a resource allocation problem, not a question of affordability.

Which is bad enough for the common American LABORER- for whom American businesses are already traitors in this war.

You are probably right here that NEITHER US or Chinese laborers will benefit from a price war...

Then you haven't been paying attention to what the Waltons are saying.

I was surprised by a great NPR piece on the upcoming Walmart Movie which suggested that Walmart really does do some things to help common laborers like provide a lot of unskilled jobs, cashes a LOT of checkes, and keep the price of consumer goods down. Allbeit US manufacturing is suffering, it's not only Walmart's fault..."Traitor" is uncalled for...The Walton are mid-western American buisness owners, not anti-patriotic communists.

Which is bad enough- a Wal*Mart every three miles and no other stores at all.

While the loss of small buisnesses and farm owners preceded the fall of the Roman Empire (college history class), maybe in a World Wide Economy the Walmarts allow for more efficient transfer of goods and services.

Or at least they're pretending to- while they destroy jobs here and close our home retail outlets to sell their shoddy goods through traitors to America.

Do you know anyone who has been to China in the last couple of years!?!? Things ARE changing...and if the worst part of your war is the exchange of shoddy goods, then you clearly don't have much experience with a "World War". It should conjure images of hollocaust and depraved trench war fare, not poorly made can-openers and long check-out lines.

Except for China, who has already stated that if we interfere with their next invasion they will nuke American cities.

Do you have a source for that allegation? China wouldn't make that threat, much less carry it out.

Actually caffeine isn't the strong diuretic most people think it is, and people who have regular intake also build a resistance that further lowers the diuretic effect, in the end you only lose a very small amount of the water in your coffee or tea due to caffeine. http://www.ific.org/foodinsight/2002/ja/caffdehydn bfi402.cfm

I like your post, but I'm pretty sure Sucralose is chlorinated sucrose molecule. At least, that is what the company that produces it says. Here are some links:
http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/ http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_danger s.htm# http://www.ific.org/publications/brochures/sucralo sebroch.cfm http://www.sucralose.org/facts.html

Please note I wasn't specifically looking for pros vs cons of the shit. I personally hate it, I can taste when it's in my food, and I have a sneaking suspicion it wrecked my digestive system. However, I don't know all there is to know about it so I really can't point fingers, but I can stop, and have stopped, eating it.

Check out this debunking page.