Sugar: The Bitter Truth

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  • srsly?!

    Anonymous Poster

    13 years ago 08/29/2010 10:18pm EDT
    re: Shoebacca

    Table sugar is sucrose = fructose molecule bonded to glucose molecule. When you eat sugar, it is digested into 50% fructose and 50% glucose. Now, HFCS is *not* fructose. It's 55% fructose, 45% glucose. Basically, HFCS is like pre-digested table sugar with a little extra fructose (say, sugar and a few apples). Not very different really. The bad things that are being attributed to HFCS could also be attributed to sugar, and probably other things. For example leptin resistance can result from a number of things including a high fat diet.

  • Clell Adams

    Anonymous Poster

    13 years ago 08/29/2010 10:21pm EDT
    re: towhee

    towhee wrote:

    Milk sting? That is crazy, but I googled milk sting operation and got a ton of hits. Apparently Missouri is milk sting central.

    Back to HFCS, this is not due to capitalism--just the opposite. US makers use HFCS due to sugar price supports which makes sugar much more expensive in the US than in other countries.

    The US Sugar industry has great political clout (w/ both parties) and uses it to distort the market. This is not capitalism, rather gov't intervention into the economy. Exactly the approach favored by liberals.

    Exactly! I think in the 1700's they called it Mercantilism! Fascism is probably the extreme.

  • statistics and lies

    Anonymous Poster

    13 years ago 08/29/2010 10:51pm EDT
    re: theone

    theone wrote:

    Does someone want to explain why humans today are living longer than ever before... We must be doing something right.

    humans are not living longer now then in the past. more are living to be old, but we are not living any longer as individuals.

    on the topic of nutrition/health i feel the biggest factor is genetics. my wife and i eat the same diet (with mine being a little worse). my blood pressure and cholesterol (her 210-220, me 120-130)are way better than hers. she runs 5-8 miles 5 days a week. not like she is a lazy ass.

    should i eat processed food everyday? no. do i? yes. should i drink dr pepper, not really, but i do as it tastes great. not every day but i do drink it.

  • Alex Jones

    Anonymous Poster

    13 years ago 08/29/2010 10:53pm EDT
    re: theone

    theone wrote:

    Does someone want to explain why humans today are living longer than ever before... We must be doing something right. Btw if you can digest lactose you can eat all of it you want. It's simply a matter of whether or not you possess the enzyme lactase.... Humans got that not so long ago, but it's an evolutionary adapdation, just like your eyes.

    Not true. Take out all the people who died before the age of 10 on both sides. We are living shorter lives than in the past.

  • registered

    Citizen Runner

    Member since 08/15/2007.

    3,010 posts. Last post 3 weeks ago.
    13 years ago 08/30/2010 8:34am EDT
    re: Sagarin

    Sagarin wrote:

    . . . anecdotal scientific corroboration . . .

    I hope you were damning LetsRun for it's lack of an edit function after posting this statement.

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