Look at the people in the video below. Look at their self-satisfied little faces. These are the authors of the toxic sugar article. They are idiots. I do not say that to be insulting, but as a statement of fact. The woman on the right, in particular, should not be trusted with a pair of scissors. She calls herself a “medical sociologist” and works at UCSF. This should disqualify her from going anywhere near a scientific journal. She thinks that sugar is a poison because it is fermented to make alcohol. If you read the Daily Mail, alcohol is made by “distilling sugar”. This is what we’re up against: cretinous arguments made still more ludicrous by a woefully uneducated media.
Read the whole thing. Then send it to 3 random reporters.
Coincidentally, I was just listening to an interview of Laura Schmidt here.
I thought you’d like that one, Kate. 🙂 Cheers.
It’s true, I saw three bodies on the street today and the sugar crystals were visible on the surface of their skin. It was horrible, the police wouldn’t let me near enough to take pictures. In fact I think they got my licence plate number. I’ve got to get out of here before they come for me.
mike
Corn sugar is a major ingredient in most processed ‘food’. What do you think is causing the North American obesity epidemic? In Canada corn sugar is increasing the cost of universal health care. Smarten up. If people are not intelligent enough to control their sugar addiction, then the govt will tax it and control it by making sugar laced products more expensive, just like taxes do with alcohol and tobacco. Those taxes help pay for the universal health care you believe you’re entitled to.
This type of idiocy is something I have to deal with on a frequent basis in the medical profession. Doctors assume that what they see in their sub-sub specialty is representative of the general population. Yes, there are an increasing number of fat kids, but high sugar products is just one of the many reasons they’re fat. In fact, I’d blame the nanny state and risk-averse parents far more than I would a simple disaccheride.
Someone who deals with childhood obesity only is a sub-sub specialist. All they see are fat kids with insulin resistance but they don’t see any normal kids. When they walk around outside their office, all they see are fat people. Just like the distorted world view of my anorectic patients who only see people that they believe are thinner than them.
Same thing happens with ER docs who see gunshot wounds and assume there must be an epidemic of firearms homicide out there and want guns banned. Curiously, despite the several orders of magnitude incidence of vehicular trauma in ER’s, they don’t seem to demand the banning of automobiles. I’ve talked to respirologists that are militantly anti-tobacco because all they see are people with COPD which is caused by smoking, but rather than getting people to switch to a safer nicotine delivery system they go an on anti-tobacco/anti-nicotine rant. Curious how the “harm reduction” approach only gets applied to drug addicts but never smokers or drinkers of soft-drinks. There are places where junkies can shoot up in Vancouver, but the city is trying to ban smoking anywhere in the moonbat capital of Canada.
The main reason kids are fat is because they have no exercise. They are driven to school by their terrified parents who assume if they don’t drop their kid off at the front door of the school that their children will be abducted by someone if they were so negligent as to let them walk a few blocks to school. I grew up in an era where walking to school was the norm and any kid that got dropped off at the school by their parents was the object of ridicule. We drank pop by the gallon and never put on weight because there was compulsory phys-ed class in high school, track team practices after school, impromptu soccer games on weekends and cycling out past the city limits to shoot gophers. My main problem when I was younger was trying to put on weight as it seemed no matter how much I ate I’d still be below the weight I wanted to be.
Rather than blame the culture of risk-aversion that morons like the “child obesity expert” have helped to foster, they have to project the blame on something else. For the totally inactive, sugar containing soft drinks are not something they should consume. I do the harm-reduction approach and switch sessile people over to diet pop. For those who struggle with weight loss, I put them on the highest calorie foods I can think of. Even eating bacon fat and ketchup sandwiches for school lunches didn’t help me put on weight when I was probably about 20x more physically active than I am now.
The other big source of weight gain is shift work. One of the things that has always struck me about hospitals is the number of morbidly obese nurses that I see. Banning sale of sugar containing drinks in hospitals or other workplaces is not going to make employees thinner but looking at peoples individual circadian rhythms will. That’s a lot harder to do and beyond the comprehension of those who assume that one needs the involvement of the nanny state in all aspects of peoples lives.
What about starch? Same thing, longer molecule, your body turns it into sugar. Your body turns fat into sugar too. We’re screwed.
North of 60
“What do you think is causing the North American obesity epidemic?”
Like the Doc says – inactivity. Your body turns just about everything you eat to sugar anyhow. When I used to run several miles a few times a week, I lost massive weight and couldn’t have gained it back no matter what. Unfortunately I gave up running.
It’s more than inactivity. It’s consuming more empty calories than you burn off. It’s consuming junk food instead of nutritious real food. Stupid, lazy people who eat junk food get fat. It’s a matter of balance.
I wear the same size clothes I wore 40 years ago, and ever since. I stay active and keep my health as my highest priority.
If you put cheap crappy fuel in your vehicle it won’t run right and your maintenance costs will increase or you’ll trash the engine.
Use some sense about what your shove in your pie hole.
I agree with Loki. In school, I played soccer and I walked to and from school (one street over I could have taken the bus!) and I walked my dog four times a day. I left home at 18 weighing 125 pounds. I ate like a horse and every sandwich had honey on it. I’m still here 50 years later.
Honey is not the same as processed corn sugar in the same way that multi-grain porridge isn’t the same as processed corn-sugar laced packaged cereal. Any competent doctor can tell you which is healthier.
We’ve adapted to scarcity for all of human existence until now. Simple carbohydrates are not common in nature.
Ingestion of more than a small amount at a time causes one’s blood sugar to spike. The body, adapted for scarcity, reacts by releasing insulin to convert the extra sugar to fat, which helps survival when the next bout of scarcity occurs.
This is why bears go crazy for berry patches in the late summer. It’s a very quick way to put on fat and survive a long winters nap at a reduced metabolism.
If simple carbohydrates in small doses are consumed along with say protein and fat, that will slow down digestion and reduce the blood sugar spike. e.i. diabetics are advised thay they may have a cookie for a snack if they have a piece of cheese with it.
Soft drinks are probably the worst and substituting them for water, tea or milk may very well bankrupt our medical system as it tries to cope with an epidemic of type 2 diabetes.
There is a higher profit margin in soft drinks but lower or non-carb drinks could be sold at a similar profit.
Consumption of simple carbs, includes breads, soft drinks, candies and deserts. These make up a huge percentage of many people’s diets.
Exercise is necessary but unless you are cycling to work and for transportation, most people can’t get enough exercise to offset more than a small amount of soft drink consumption.
10 ounces or about 335 ml used to be a standard size and the 6 ounce coca-colas where sold. 7Up was way out there offering 12 ounces.
Now people buy double that or more at a time. We have to change.
Adopting a lifestyle of ill health and self-affected disability isn’t normal. And doing it to children is irresponsible.
If people are not intelligent enough to control their sugar addiction, then the govt will tax it and control it by making sugar laced products more expensive, just like taxes do with alcohol and tobacco. Those taxes help pay for the universal health care you believe you’re entitled to.
~North of 60
I believe I’m entitled to private health care that I pay for on an ‘as needed’ basis.
Problem is, the f’n government has made that illegal and says the universal health care is all I can have in Canada.
Does restricting my health care choice to the universal Soviet system give the government or North of 60 a licence to tell me how to live my life to keep the cost of the system they foist on me down?
Hell NO!
What’s next?
Them telling people they can’t ski or ride motorcycles or swim or any number of things they could be doing with their lives that are best not done because of risk?
”It’s consuming more empty calories than you burn off” is a false statement about why people are fat.
Could you free my earlier comment from the spam filter please, Kate?
Thank you in advance.
Dopes all of them.
How do you fatten a cow?
You feed it whole grain.
The real cause of a majority of obesity related issues stems from the proliferation of wheat in the diet. Whole wheat has both complex and simple carbohydrates.
The complex carbohydrate is slow break down gives the body a constant supply of carbs which, in turn, mutes the body’s requirement to burn fat as carbs are easier to burn and are selected before fat and protein.
The simple carb, while readily available, often goes unused and is converted into glycogen and then fat.
Read your labels and you will find that wheat is in everything… including many sodas and ice-creams!
Other than weight gain from unused fats, high triglycerides (blood fat) is a common problem, with a complementing bad cholesterol ratio (low HDL high LDL).
Wait… it gets better. Since complex carbs are slow to break down they require a constant supply of insulin. This forces the pancreas into 24-7 production, no rest. So, diabetes is actually caused arguably more by complex carbs than simple sugars. A lot of sugar isn’t great, but its not as bad as the complex carb.
Whole grain is like the perfect fat bomb because it offers both carb types and at such high ratios.
According to 3fatchicks.com a corn tortilla has 70 calories while the flour ones are 150!
An additional note. All the wheat in processed food is iron fortified. Iron is an oxidant. Think rust = cancer. Some cereals will have up to 50% USRDA in 3/4 cup.
On an average day most people have no idea that they are unintentionally ingesting way too much iron… which should never be supplemented outside of an anemic condition.
Wheat is also known to cause sub-clinical gastric irritation which over a long term… yep colon cancer, and there’s a lot of that these days.
I’d love to ask the doctor what the 6 month old obese baby is eating. Yes some babies get too much juice and maybe even soda… but I’m willing to bet my bottom dollar the kids eating cereal.
Governments should get the hell out of our lives. If people want to eat sugar, that’s their business. Fact is, however, sugar consumption is responsible for a huge array of illnesses. Most Americans eat 150 lbs of sugar at least per year and the consequences are catastrophic. I’ve known this for years; the literature on the subject is abundant. Twenty months ago, I stopped using sugar. I have not had one grain of refined sugar. The results were and are astounding. I have lost weight, feel much more energetic and have left behind a wide array of health issues. As a libertarian, I want no part of government telling me how to live. But as an informed citizen, I’ve made my choice and I would urge everyone to do the same. We could save a lot of money in health care and live better lives. Seriously, folks, there’s a lot at stake for you.
Addendum: I forgot to note that 12 oz. coke has 140 calories. Most folks wouldn’t look at a flour tortilla and think 12 oz coke.
I unforunatly (bad spelling, I know, spell check fail)
Lost my drivers licence 2 years ago, it changes ones perspective, to carry 15 Kg of food 3 Km with a backpack.
My point? You are all weak couch surfers.
[man that knows work]
dright
The video and the article remind me of the AWG Fraud and how it was perped on the unsuspecting trusting flock of sheep. We need Fraud protection laws that cover Fraudsters like politicians that bleed the taxes to support the Fraudsters. We need heavy jail time for the Hucksters, like Suzuki etc….
What do you think is causing the North American obesity epidemic?
Over eating and inactivity, it’s REALLY that simple!
RFB. 6:23 am; I was thinking the same thing. Climate Change/Global Warming is starting to be ridiculed, and more and more people are starting to know the truth.
Governments need fear to control population. Anything in excess is bad for you, and why not pick on sugar – like carbon – there is lots to go around.
These three people have the opportunity to become very rich in speaking at “health” seminars – like Al Gore and Dr. Fruit-fly on Climate Change/Global Warming – they know that if they start saying that the medical profession is behind them and test results are to their way of thinking, then cause fear of sugar – the next thing that affects the world will be sugar. if you argue with them, you will be classified as a denier.
Loki at 1:57, I agree with you. I put the whole blame upon the school system that force children to be afraid of everything. Children today are forced to do “nothing” because at school games are starting to be a bad thing – a teacher might be hit with a soccer ball, therefore ban all balls for children to play with. (The only running that should be stopped is a child running with a pair of scissors in their hands.) I am waiting for a rule to be imposed that a child must wear a helmet at times during school hours – after all they might slip and fall and result of a head injury. Next thing banned will be a game of tag.
Clown Party you are so right. Helmets at first only during recess and lunch then from the time they step out their doors at home. It takes a village, if even one is saved doctrine etc. My Gawd, how did we survive. My Dad smoked, we drove around without seatbelts, we always looked for the steepest hill to race down on our old beat up bicyles without chain guards or helmets into oncoming traffic, we fist faught and gouged and bit and clawed away at each other during recesses. We laughed at losers. We walked home in our barefeet from school on dirt roads in the summer on the pcb used oil that the county sprayed down for dust control. On days off we rambled the countryside from daylight to after dark, and would get lickins from our Mom when we refused to come inside for supper long after dark. We built tree houses without permits and inspections anywhere we could. And went to lumberyards and scrounged scraps to make real wooden swords and beat hell out of each other with them. If somebody made fun of us we punched them in the mouth immediately and kept fighting even if we were losing. Never heard the word Bully spoken once, because Bully’s only exist when they have willing victims that don’t fight back. We shot each other in the ass with BB guns, and never squealed, just got even. We rode all over hell in the back of pick ups with our dogs. And a man’s home was his castle. We didn’t have home invasion’s because that kind of activity would be very deadly for the invader as there was always a shotgun, club or sharp axe laying around handy. People need to quit assigning control of their lives over to GUBMINT and grow a set, and take control of their own lives and accept their mistakes themselves. Start by getting GUBMINT and their experts out of your face and off your front porch and finally off your front lawn.
The bear has it. You are what you eat. Nobody is holding a gun to anybody’s head and forcing food down their throats. It’s that stupid personal responsibility thing again…
infinity is not equal to zero – Interesting theory although I suspect that from the time we first started farming grain, until about 50 years ago the average person got way more of their calories from whole grain than they do now. In northern Europe you get fresh fruit and veg for about two months of the year, meat was way to expensive to eat in anywhere near the quantity that most people do now. Before potatoes became part of the diet in the sixteenth century, I suspect that there were times of the year when your average peasant ate nothing but whole grain, and even at he hight of summer it would be a huge chunk of their caloric intake.
. . . what Loki said.
Maybe these two could play defense on the Mikey Mann Hockey Stick team?
Read any of gary taubes’ book on this issue.
As for the governemnt argument. Govt helpedvcause the problem with food pyramids etc. People knew what to eat before and then behaviour and habits get transformed.
However. This is a good example of how even with a semi right answer people move to a government based solution. Of course much of this stems from govt healthcare. Once you accept that completely and wholly then the argument that other arms of the government/insurer get involbed to cut the costs through regulatioln only make sense.
You would never let a private insurance company get onvomved in your life like this. But people are comforable to let govt do it.
The proliferation of processed sugar and carbs is the source problem., you can live life on protein and fat with carbs or sugar. You cant live life the other way around Govt is not the answer.
Everyone wants to be the NEXT Al Gore now.
Two months ago the whackjobs demonized salt, and lo and behold a low sodium diet isn’t good for you or your electrolights.
All three if that group are lobbyists for the manufacturer, HOT Ltd. It’s main product is Hot Air in a Can.
“…Two months ago the whackjobs demonized salt, and lo and behold a low sodium diet isn’t good for you or your electrolights. …”
Correct and further studies have revealed that although increased salt may lead to higher blood pressure , the odd part is those who consumed more salt lived longer than those who did not … hmmm … oh well … sugar’s turn next.
So now on to sugar as the latest bogeyman which also will go the way of salt and global warming once Joe public wearies of being constantly scolded by these whack jobs.
Loki@1:57:
I’ve been reading the Eades’ books on Non-Alcoholoic Fatty Liver Disorder (NAFLD), and the roles played in its production by high carbohydrate diets in general, and diets high in high-fructose corn syrup. They make a compelling case that such diets cause NAFLD, insulin resistance, and excess visceral fat, and that a very good way to reverse this condition is a low-carb, high protein diet. Do you have an opinion on their arguments?
Tag and ball games have been banned in schools.Can’t play a game of pick-up ball or soccer anymore.Can’t ride anything without ton’s of “safety” gear on. Sorry,Nof60,it ain’t what we eat.It’s allowing zero self-esteem nutbars and do-gooders into our lives and believing them.Anything,ESPECIALLY do-gooders,leftards,and gubermint,in your life to excess causes 99.99999% of our problems.A nutbar in my neighbourhood actually call 911 when she sees kids running(the horror) down the street as she figures they have committed some unspeakable crime!!! The kids need to be running,from her,and she needs a special jacket and some mental help!
Overall this is what happens when you believe in anything.You fall for everything,especially if mouthed my so-called “know-it-alls.
Oh and BTW.Can’t have people eating glucose anyways.The eco-cultists need it to power their cars.The human race really is heading for hell,not in a hand basket,but in a lightspeed vehicle.
Gosh, all those adulatory gazes and sensual body movements. Bet that 1 minute after the camera was shut off they were doin’ the nasty. Where in hell was CBC???
Loki, well said.
Oz, exactly
I have lost 8 pounds since last October simply by reducing the amount I put in my plate at supper. No other changes and was only mildly overweight for my age to begin with.
These scum will not rest until they control every aspect of our lives. It is amazing that anybody gives these deluded people any credence.
North of 60 at 2012 1:55 AM, the biggest problem I have with our health care system is that we have to pay for other people’s stupid decisions and bad habits. If those people had to pay for their own health care, they might very well be healthier simply because they would feel the full consequences of their bad habits.
Loki@ 1:57 and “infinity not phi”@3:29:
I’ve been reading the Eades’ books (The 6-week Cure For the Middle-Aged Middle, Protein Power) on the role played by carbohydrates in general, and fructose in particular, in the production of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disorder (NAFLD). They argue, as I understand it, that such diets cause insulin resistance, which in turn causes “metabolic syndrome”, which is associated with high cholesterol, high triglycerides, low HDL, high blood pressure, and etc.; which in turn increases production of visceral fat, including a fatty liver impaired in all its important functions. They argue that the best way to address and reverse NAFLD is a low-carbohydrate, high protein, high animal fat diet. Do you have an opinion on the quality of their arguments?
(PS: apologies for possible double post. An earlier attempt was caught by the filter, probably for a link to Amazon’s page on the Eades’ books.)
On the other hand, wait five minutes. The “experts” will change their minds. I like to tell the story of what my mother was told when I was a baby. I had developed a bad case of eczema. My mom’s doctor told her to take me off of breast milk and start giving me cow’s milk, which she did. I was then subjected to years and years of allergies to all kinds of things, including cow’s milk. And today, the mantra is mother’s milk is best, way better than cow’s milk. So my philosophy is to eat, drink and be merry and pay no attention to the latest scare about whatever you are consuming. We’re all gonna die anyway. And we all have the capacity to refuse medical intervention, if you need to ease your conscience about a life lived eating the “wrong” stuff.
On a similar note, I hate it that “they” have gone and bred the fat out of beef cattle. Can’t make any good old-fashioned beef gravy to pour on the mashed potatoes any more. And then there’s the ongoing saga of that poor farmer (in Ontario?) who is not allowed to sell his raw milk to people who want to buy it. Pisses me off, ’cause I used to make my own yogurt, for which you really do need raw milk.
/rant
The middle east is on fire. The world economy is going over a cliff and this is important. Not.
The worst epidemic ever. Say no more. Bugs is right “What a Maroooooooooon.”
Louise “the biggest problem I have with our health care system is that we have to pay for other people’s stupid decisions and bad habits. If those people had to pay for their own health care, they might very well be healthier simply because they would feel the full consequences of their bad habits.”
The biggest cost of the healthcare system is old age. Perhaps we should just kill everyone at 65. It would sure solve a lot of problems. Maybe younger people with a predisposition to cancer should be responsible for their own care. Their greedy parents should have never had children. We could also bring back the socialist field of eugenics. Just kill all the inferior ba$tards. And give every prisoner a rope. Did I miss something. I guess we could take a different tack and show compassion.
Children have been told all there life’s by there parents, teachers and relatives how smart they are. Most learn at some point in there life that it was a lie, others mostly intellectuals on the other hand believe in there superiority for the rest of there life’s.
They want to kill us all. Sugar = glucose = source of ATP = source of life. These people are crazy.
Nick, Drs. Eades’ work is sound metabolically. Sugar that contains fructose (half of sucrose (table sugar), for example) and excess glucose (starch, half of sucrose) are metabolically toxic. Pre-humans lost the fructase enzyme to metabolize fructose when they moved from trees to savannah. Fructose does a lot of bad things (raises triglycerides, raises small dense LDL, raises uric acid, raises blood pressure, causes leptin resistance (interfering with appetite regulation), causes storage of visceral belly fat, causes fatty liver, is strongly pro-inflammatory, and more). Fortunately early humans only had traces of sugar except for limited windows in the summer when fruit was ripe and that allowed storage of fat for winter warmth and energy. Now we eat sugar in much greater quantity and all year round.
And then there is wheat starch (amylopectin A). Whole grain bread has a higher glycemic index (it raises blood sugar faster) than table sugar. Elevated glucose has its own constellation of metabolic toxicity.
The human body is really a simple thing. If you put more in than you take out it gets bigger. If you take out more than you put in it gets smaller.
BTW to the person who commented on fattening cattle. You don’t fatten cattle by feeding them grain. You fatten cattle by limiting their exercise (put them in a feed lot where they don’t have to walk anywhere) and feed them a mixture that has sufficient protein and carbs to fatten them up. Of course in the summer cattle put on weight eating grass if there is sufficient grass that they don’t have to walk very far.
What Scar said @ 10:55.
It is all about control, although they would be the last to admit that.
Hey Louise, I like your take on Life!
Personally, of course I cannot recall being breast fed, 80 ago tomorrow, but I must have been weaned too soon because when I was in my teens I rediscovered wherefrom I may had been weaned too early in life!
Had lots of sugar sweets to eat in the intervening years, as well.
And as an aside, one of the first things my Hungarian “immigrant” father learned in the English language is that there are more “horses asses” in life than there are horses!!
What I’ve learned over the years is that people lie about what they eat. I see this most often in the morbidly obese who, when I do a dietary history, tell me that they eat significantly less than I do except they weigh 600 lb. Once they’ve had their gastric banding or intestinal bypass surgery, suddenly the truth comes out about how much they’re stuffing their face as their digestive system can’t handle this amount of food any more. It’s really simple: calories in – calories out.
So, now I avoid sugar in all forms because I no longer cycle 50-100 miles/day. I also try to stick to a high protein low carb diet as this results in consumption of fewer calories (that’s why the Atkin’s diet works). Hospital cafeteria food sucks, but I do have to refuel periodically. Free range beef is preferable to grain fed beef but it costs more so those who can only afford regular beef should supplement their diet with fish oil. Incidentally, omega-3 fatty acids increase metabolic rate slightly.
Will check back later as have to head over to the hospital now to deal with a large number of people whose dietary indiscretions over the years have impacted their health.
The experts can draw a perfect picture of an a*shole. But they can’t make it sh*t…..A little cowboy wisdom…
Murray@11:44:
Thanks very much. You remarks confirm my understanding of the Eades. But, whole grain bread has a higher glycemic index than table sugar? Zut alors!
Air is dangerous too. People, well leftists for sure, should stop breathing in air, it is nothing but diluted poison full of toxins like, umm, carbon dioxide. Please stop the slaughter of innocents, and do your part, breathe an air substitute.
A message from Americans Against Air Related Grand Harm (A.A.A.R.G.H.).
Associated with American Sugar Substitute Holistic Overarching League of Earth Savants(A.S.S.H.O.L.E.S.)
It’s no surprise that the same ilk of putative ‘public health’ crusaders who practically mandate physical inactivity in schools by banning jungle gyms and schoolyard tag and the throwing of balls and even *running at recess* because of the inherent dangers of these activities now want to add eating sugar to the list of proscribed behaviours. The salient point in both cases is their presumption that they are superiors who are ordained by their putatively superior intelligence and upbringing and academic credentials to rule over the lives of the great unwashed.
In this particular case, debates about the relative health benefits/drawbacks to sugar are beside the point. It’s obviously not conducive to good health to replace proteins, vegetables, and complex carbohydrates with processed carbs and sugar, but if one is physically active and eats variety of foods a bit of sugar along the way does no harm. Swimmer Michael Phelps, for example —who certainly appeared to be in good health when he was winning his sixteen Olympic medals — ate 12,000 calories a day, including a lot of animal (dairy) fat and sugar. His breakfast alone consisted of “three fried egg sandwiches with a lot of cheese…fried onions, and mayonnaise…a five egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast with powdered sugar, and three chocolate chip pancakes.” Lunch included a pound of pasta, two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayonnaise on white bread, and a bunch of specialized high-calorie (sugared) energy drinks. For dinner he’d eat *another* pound of pasta, a whole pizza, more energy drinks…
You get the point.
What we must never forget, even for a second, is that for people like the buttinskies in the video it’s not really about sugar ,or whatever else they’re going on about at any given moment. Robert H. Lustig and the rest of these self-appointed royal ‘we’ types aren’t motivated by a real and heartfelt concern for others – the truth is that they couldn’t give a rat’s ass about how you’re doing — but by self-interest and self-aggrandization. They are motivated by an urge to ensconce themselves as high-ranking members of the priestly tribe who deigns to oversee the lives of the little people who are, as Joan of Argghh! put it, “rubes to be ruled by their betters.”
If some busybody neighbour from hell rapped on your door to check on you, with a smile, to make sure your household is being run in a safe and healthy way, you would understand immediately that she’s not actually doing it for *you*, and that the Captain Crunch – or whatever – in your cupboard isn’t actually the salient point of the encounter. The same applies tenfold for the nanny state’s busybodies, because they’re trying to ensure that the repulsive dynamics of the encounter are ensconced in *the law*.
Smite them. Proverbially speaking.