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[thedreamisdead]

[There's no getting around it. It's an essay. About the dangers of sugar abuse on your health, linked to several medical articles. In it, she links the abuse of sugar to depression, diabetes, dopamine imbalances, fueling cancer cells and making tumors more aggressive, impotence, increased risk of heart attacks and heart disease, increased inflammation leading to joint pain and arthritis, increased risk of strokes, kidney failure, and rotting teeth.

Included in her essay is a list of signs of sugar abuse, including false teeth, rotten teeth, pupil dilation, jitteriness, mid-afternoon 'crashes', and other symptoms.

She wraps up with a plea for people to seek help and rehabilitation for their addictions and avoid anyone who might try to push such addictive substances on them.]

Comments

[thedreamisdead]

You can't help people if they don't want to be helped. I've tried before.

[unspeakablyevil]

Yes, it is often true that those who are most in need of help will show the greatest resistance to it. Perhaps you should take a more psychological approach. If you can develope a strong, adverse reaction to sugar through training, the subject will learn to avoid sugar and even fear it.

[Now, let's beat everyone with Twizzler whips!]

[thedreamisdead]

Aversion therapy, unfortunately, is illegal here.

[Or else she'd have broken out the chairs with straps and electro-shock pad a while ago.]

My hands are tied by how much authority I actually have here.

[Which is to say, authority to make arrests, but not decide sentencing.]

[unspeakablyevil]

We could call it sugar reduction therapy.

[thedreamisdead]

Hm. Maybe convince the cook staff for a healthier diet...

[unspeakablyevil]

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I still say training them to associate sugar with pain is much more effective.