By: dearieme
“Especially when you consider that legumes and veggies and grains are actually cheaper than the junk food they shouldn’t apparently be buying.” But there are people who hold the quasi-religious belief...
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Actually there is some sense to it, although it’s still a stupid idea for other reasons. It’s cheaper to eat junk than to eat healthy, if you’re not a vegetarian or a home-cooker. For instance fatty...
View ArticleBy: Ian B
The romantic-puritan-nutters have done a rather clever propaganda swerve on this, as we see above as well in Matthew L’s comment. That is, to convince people that “calories” are separate from...
View ArticleBy: Jim
“A calorie is a calorie is a calorie”: Not exactly. There is considerable evidence that diets high in fructose (which means soft drinks and many manufactured food products) make a person fatter than a...
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But Jim, if fructose is eeeevil, one should eschew fruit – the bloody stuff is packed with it.
View ArticleBy: Ian B
So, Jim, I take it we’ll now have to stop shoving “healthy” fructose-packed fruit juice down our kids’ throats, will we?
View ArticleBy: sadbutmadlad
What is a health diet anyway. The Inuit have one diet. The Japanese another. French a different one. Middle eastern people eat unusual food compared to Russians. All of them are health as the people...
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Ian: Rest assured, I’m not saying that nutrition and calories are diametrically opposed. A lovely fresh salad drenched in an oil-based dressing is both nutritious and calorie laden (and very tasty). A...
View ArticleBy: sadbutmadlad
Jim, both Fructose and Glucose go to the liver via the intestines. Glucose does go to the muscles but so does Fructose after it’s been processed in the liver.
View ArticleBy: Ian B
Matthew- You still think that calories and “nutrition” are different things though, don’t you?
View ArticleBy: dearieme
“Tim adds: … However, USian soft drinks are sweetened with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and UK ones with good ole sugar. We cannot therefore blame the UK obesity on fructose. ” This logic doesn’t...
View ArticleBy: Matthew L
Matthew- You still think that calories and “nutrition” are different things though, don’t you? Not exactly. I personally define nutrition as anything you eat that prevents a disease of deficiency –...
View ArticleBy: Kevin B
A quote form a Reuters article: “Gains in life expectancy contrast with Americans’ unhealthy behaviors, which have led to a 28 percent adult obesity rate, a diabetes rate of nearly 10 percent and a...
View ArticleBy: dearieme
Yes, Diabetes II has been defined down. They bastards have, as usual, slipped in “risk factor” to imply that it’s a proven cause of a disease, whereas it’s just a positive correlate which may, or may...
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@TW: as others have pointed out ordinary sugar (sucrose) is just one glucose molecule loosely attached to one fructose molecule. The first thing the body does is split them apart. So soft drinks in the...
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I love pointing out the energy content of diet yoghurt versus the full fat kind. The look of dismay on the face of the poor dieter is a joy to behold.
View ArticleBy: Dave
“A calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Each one is equally as nutritious as another.” That assumes that the body treats all calories the same. Your mouth and stomach (and digestive system, blood-sugar...
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That assumes that the body treats all calories the same. It does. You’re talking about satiety, which is a different kettle of deep-fried fish. Some people have a broken satiety sensation, and they’re...
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