Sugar !!!
Pure white and deadly,rots your teeth and gums,
Feed's the less friendly bugs in your gut and tumms.
Contributes mightily to diabetes,obesity and many diseases.
Nature tempts us to crave and consume sweet foods as it pleases.
Breast milk is sweet and the sweet taste transmits comfort and love.
Safe to take by us all ,blessed by our Creator from up above.
But in present days this sugar craving has become a liability,
There by every supermarket check-out with a tempting availability.
Will power alone will not cure your sweet sugar craving,
Switching your taste buds from sweet to green start engaging.
Our sugar-loaded environment is full of stuff so sweet,
Learn to love dark green leafy veg,a much healthier treat.
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh
Tue 15th Jul 2025 10:57
Candy racks? Never heard of them Graham.
I was brought up with the traditional British “Ye Olde Toffee Shop”.
14th July, 2025: Visited 2 different supermarkets, each 5 minutes’ walk apart.
1st one. A floor area “just happened” to be positioned immediately after the check outs, and oustside the toilets. It was approximately 5’ wide x 5’ high x 15’ long, and was piled high with chocolate bars, boxes of sweets, you name it. Not a magazine in sight.
2nd one. There were about 6 till conveyor belts, every single one of them deep in a mountain of mints, chocolate bars and packs of chocolate biscuits; might as well have been bags of sugar! Not a magazine in sight.
Social policies determining low incomes, poor education, and coupled with inevitably poor nutritional food choices form a vicious circle, leading directly to poor health.