Sugar is as bad for you as cocaine.

And so is salt, and walking blindfold across a street, and being fat, and smoking, and drinking and living if we're honest. Everything is bad for you. Get over it!

I'm not sourcing any of the above (for a change) because it's all crap. You can google health scares and bad sugar and salt etc as easily as I can. Enjoy the trip.

There seems to be a campaign against sugar this month. The question is whether you believe this shit or not? If you do, then it's bad for you. If you don't, it isn't.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease that is always fatal.

Think about that for a minute.

Then there's the old chestnut (with which I have some sympathy) that you can give up smoking, and drinking, enjoying yourself, if you want to live longer. 'Will it make me live longer?' 'No but it will feel like it.'

If you have to have a government tell you what to eat, imbibe, drink, not eat, etc, then you are stupid. You know that eating burgers and processed crap is bad for you. You know (don't you?) that eating fresh fruit and vegetables is good for you.

But it's up to you in the end. I tend to think that eating well is a good thing because it makes you healthy during your life. It enables you to enjoy yourself, to be fit enough to play some sport, go skiing for example, walk the dog, enjoy our wonderful countryside, engage with people, enjoy their company, essentially, to 'live'.

But if you live your life by some governmental health edict, essentially decreed to ensure that you contribute to the common good - i.e. work - for as long as possible, you're just a pawn. It's not about you and your quality of life but about screwing as much out of you as possible.

You may want to be the oldest man or woman in the care home, fed on a drip, surviving not living, having your waste taken care of by others. And that's just fine if you do. But is a life of abstemiousness really worth that? I don't think so.

You have one life, live it, and enjoy as much as you can. Eat vegetables and fish. Exercise for enjoyment, walk and look at the world, make the most of it.

Don't, for goodness' sake worry about salt or sugar. Take the opportunities that life presents. Travel if you can. Experience other cultures, food, music, history, places.

'Sugar is a major threat to health'? Fuck off.

Thanks for reading.