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| Topic Started: Feb 19 2016, 03:04 AM (785 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Feb 19 2016, 03:04 AM Post #1 |
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I was surprised to read this article this morning. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/one-third-of-hot-drinks-in-high-street-chains-as-sugary-as-coca-cola-a6877866.html |
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| Durgan | Feb 19 2016, 03:41 PM Post #16 |
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Added Sugar in all its forms is Poison. Google and make your own evaluation. Moderation does not work. 50% UK and 61% USA are overweight. Moderation indeed. |
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| margrace | Feb 20 2016, 12:32 AM Post #17 |
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It is frustrating Durgan, when I worry about my husbands sugar intake his sister to whom he always listen say sugar will never hurt you and she preaches moderation but neither she nor my husband have a clue of what moderation is. |
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| Trotsky | Feb 20 2016, 12:52 AM Post #18 |
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Sugar is essential to life. All foods are converted into it by the body because without a certain relatively constant blood level of glucose, coma and death result in minutes. It is faddism to blame so many of life's ills on the thing without which human life is impossible. Calling sugar poison is as bad as damning oxidation when indeed the chemistry of life is best described by the equation: SUGAR + OXIDATION = LIFE ENERGY. |
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| haili | Feb 20 2016, 12:59 AM Post #19 |
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Foods change from good to bad and back again all the time. Coffee and tea were once thought to cause cancer - now they're good for us but tomorrow could be bad again. Knowing what kind of fat to use boggles my mind. Margarine was once good but now it's bad; lard was bad but now it's good, or at least better than anything hydrogenated. Olive oil is now terrific but it was once considered dangerous when used at high temps. My cousin calls sugar the Scottish curse as that side of the family all have a sweet tooth. I like a cookie with my tea after supper and I doubt that cutting it out will add any years to my life. Maybe I'm a sceptic. People who have perfect diets and exercise still die; non-smokers get cancer. It's a crap shoot IMO. |
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| Durgan | Feb 20 2016, 01:13 AM Post #20 |
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Sorry old boy thou be grasping at straws. We get plenty of sugar from our food. I am talking about the processed added stuff. Edited by Durgan, Feb 20 2016, 01:15 AM.
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| Durgan | Feb 20 2016, 01:18 AM Post #21 |
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>My cousin calls sugar the Scottish curse as that side of the family all have a sweet tooth.< Heed your cousin. Spend a couple hours reading about sugar. |
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| Trotsky | Feb 20 2016, 02:04 AM Post #22 |
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Yeah, but read about it in a textbook, not is some faddish health magazine. |
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| Durgan | Feb 20 2016, 03:07 AM Post #23 |
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There is too much information about sugar to ignore the facts and dangers. If one single thing could be removed from our Western diet in my opinion it would be sugar in most if not all its manifestations. |
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| Deleted User | Feb 20 2016, 03:10 AM Post #24 |
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There are many different kinds of sugar. The kind from fruit and veggies is good for us and gives us energy. The white stuff mixed with fat in baking clogs the arteries. |
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| Trotsky | Feb 20 2016, 03:23 AM Post #25 |
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Sugar Cane and Sugar Beets are veggies. |
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| Olive Oil | Feb 20 2016, 03:46 AM Post #26 |
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When I went to a dietician with my diabetic DH, we were told that simple carbs such as white bread were simply sugar as far as our bodies were concerned. Not that dieticians are always right. |
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| angora | Feb 20 2016, 04:05 AM Post #27 |
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My diabetes counsellor says, all in moderation. Although non of them agree with my use of coca cola to titillate my taste buds every once in a while. I've been drinking it since I was three years old. I love it and I'm not giving it up. So there! |
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| Durgan | Feb 20 2016, 04:09 AM Post #28 |
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Sugar cane and sugar beets are good food. It is extracting the raw sugar that is the problem. White commercial bread is not fit to eat, at best it is a convenient method of holding the ingredients for a sandwich. Years ago I took off 30 pounds in six months by eliminating bread and sugar. I was eating two pounds of sugar a week of the raw white stuff. Eating healthy and skewing the results by spiking on one harmful product is self defeating. |
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| Durgan | Feb 20 2016, 04:23 AM Post #29 |
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Avoid. Posted Image |
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| FuzzyO | Feb 20 2016, 04:28 AM Post #30 |
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What's wrong with Stevia? |
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