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YOu know what I hate about the new commercials promoting high fructose sugar (other than that they remind me of some of the below the belt politcial adds?)?
That they're all set up with 'Why are you eating that, don't you know what they say?', and then the HFS eater spouts out why it's not that harmful.
...And then the person who is trying to 'educate' the HFS eater is only able to come up with a dumb look in response.
Which in turn makes me want to slap the writers of the script. Hard.
Listen up.
Yes, it's the same nutritionally speaking as natural sugar (As in it has little real nutritional value).
It also doesn't metabolize the same, and is more likely to convert straight to the kind of sugar that the body automatically stores as fat.
Yes, it's all right, same as sugar in moderation.
What they don't mention is that most premade food has it, which is part of why we're overall more obese than we were twenty and thirty years ago when it wasn't used in practically every packaged food on the market. That's not moderation, guys. Sorry. And that's why there's such a drive to avoid it as much as possible. I won't even go into how much is used.
If you want to be one-sided in your representation, then avoid bashing those of us who actually do know why it's bad for you, except, perhaps, as a treat every few weeks or months or even years if you have a slower metabolism. Not, you know, everyday in things like your ceral, your soup, your bread, your pasta, your sauces, your juices, etc. Basically, anything that you couldn't go pick off a plant or kill with your own hands.
KTHNXBAI.
Gah.
That they're all set up with 'Why are you eating that, don't you know what they say?', and then the HFS eater spouts out why it's not that harmful.
...And then the person who is trying to 'educate' the HFS eater is only able to come up with a dumb look in response.
Which in turn makes me want to slap the writers of the script. Hard.
Listen up.
Yes, it's the same nutritionally speaking as natural sugar (As in it has little real nutritional value).
It also doesn't metabolize the same, and is more likely to convert straight to the kind of sugar that the body automatically stores as fat.
Yes, it's all right, same as sugar in moderation.
What they don't mention is that most premade food has it, which is part of why we're overall more obese than we were twenty and thirty years ago when it wasn't used in practically every packaged food on the market. That's not moderation, guys. Sorry. And that's why there's such a drive to avoid it as much as possible. I won't even go into how much is used.
If you want to be one-sided in your representation, then avoid bashing those of us who actually do know why it's bad for you, except, perhaps, as a treat every few weeks or months or even years if you have a slower metabolism. Not, you know, everyday in things like your ceral, your soup, your bread, your pasta, your sauces, your juices, etc. Basically, anything that you couldn't go pick off a plant or kill with your own hands.
KTHNXBAI.
Gah.
