Comments on: Should New Zealand have a sugar tax?

By: soundhill1

soundhill1 — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 12:17:39 +0000

But to substitute artificial sweeteners may bring other significant costs: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweeteners-may-change-our-gut-bacteria-in-dangerous-ways/

By: Kane

Kane — Sun, 12 Apr 2015 04:30:04 +0000

The Sugar Solution. Daniel please post on your fb page and lets get the word out that the issue is sugar.

http://fluoridefree.org.nz/the-sugar-solution/

By: Kane

Kane — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:36:00 +0000

Sugar Industry Influence on the Scientific Agenda of the National Institute of Dental Research’s 1971 National Caries Program: A Historical Analysis of Internal Documents

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001798#sec031

Published: March 10, 2015
•DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001798

By: soundhill1

soundhill1 — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 08:53:41 +0000

Even smaller amounts of sugar associated with starch in baked goods are not good. Sugar as sweets without starch is not bad in this study: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/66/5/1257.full.pdf

Maybe sugar stimulates saliva which is known to be protective and is probably the mechanism whereby fluoride protects teeth since fluoride disables acetylcholinesterase thus saliva flows.

Note greater effect of fluoridated water compared to food or toothpaste fluoride, since it is consumed more frequently thereby increasing hours of salivary flow.

Maori in the Ureweras 50km from the coast had only about 1% tooth decay till they moved to Auckland and bread sort of foods.

Breads may stick on the teeth and stop saliva getting there.

I don’t think a sugar tax would do much to reduce tooth decay. Show me any other study, please, which allows for starch effect.

By: Kane

Kane — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 05:12:46 +0000

Good on Rob Beaglehole for identifying the real issue with tooth decay. Too much sugar in our diets.

Listen to his interview with Jim Mora and FFNZ’s comments.

http://fluoridefree.org.nz/reply-jim-mora-show-27-feb-2015/

By: soundhill1

soundhill1 — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 20:32:23 +0000

The companies would be delighted replace sugar with the much cheaper non nutritive sweeteners.

However:
“We observed significantly greater weight gain among Wistar
rats fed diets supplemented with NNS – whether saccharin or
aspartame – compared with sucrose. This increase was not the re-
sult of increased total caloric intake. This discrepancy raises the
possibility that weight gain in NNS-fed rats might result from de-
creases in energy expenditure, which have been observed in other
studies. Further studies are necessary to address energy expendi-
ture after NNS exposure in rats as well as long-term clinical trials
to evaluate weight gain increases in humans”

http://enl264group5.umassd.wikispaces.net/file/view/saccharin+and+aspartame,+compared+with+sucrose,+induce+greater+weight+gain.pdf