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- As with all toxins the dose makes the poison. Even the most lethal poisons are perfectly safe at certain levels, and if you consume too much water rapidly you will die from that as well.
When these doctors call sugar "toxic" they don't mean it's a deadly poison, they mean that at the levels average Americans are consuming it, it's seriously damaging our health. - Reply to this comment
- This piece is a prime example of the sin of omission. Yes sugar is harmful but the assumption that it is the same as HFCS is not at all proven. The entire epidemic of obesity started with the introduction of HFCS while sugar has been around for one hundred years.
Most importantly is the fact that an increasingly large number of studies are finding serious harm from artificial sweeteners. Yet your article never even mentions them. To believe and act on the information in your article by switching from sugar to artificial sweeteners is jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
This article does not contribute to public health. - Reply to this comment
- What really agrivates me, it that it is nearly impossible to avoid sugar, yet we have all kinds of sugar substitutes, but none of the food companies see it as an opportunity . . . I would buy a lot more food products if they were available with sugar substitutes . . . but you go to the grocery store and all you see is sugar, sugar, up and down the aisles.
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- Does anyone know whether the same issue applies to synthetic sugar used in diet beverages and sugar-free deserts?
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- This 60 minute segment looks at the correlation between increased dietary sugar intake and obesity, emergence of type II diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. The feature emphasized one type of sugar that is ubiquitous in processed foods and soft drinks: high-fructose corn syrup. Corn is a heavily US Agriculture Department-subsidized crop, so the monetary incentive is high to farm corn. If overall sugar consumption is down, and high-fructose corn syrup consumption is up, per the segment, why then was a sugar cane farmer interviewed, rather than a corn farmer, for a producer's viewpoint on American sugar consumption?
Sincerely, Steph F. - Reply to this comment
- Almost 30 sugar cubes in a typical Thanksgiving meal, not counting the carbohydrates found in the bread, pasta or potatoes? sugarstacks.com graphically shows cube equivalents for common foods. Five sugar cubes in a banana or serving of grapes, 16 in some juices like apple or OJ. Double Gulp? too many to count!
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- This is already known. Read the books "Why we get fat" and "Good calories bad calories" by Gary Taubes. He says it all with studies and examples of the past.
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- Some of us have known for some time the harmful effects of sugar. And, we have been moving toward what is purported to be natural substitutes, like Truvia, Stevia, etc. It would have been nice to know what harmful effects, if any, these purported natural substitutes might have.
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- Do we really need sugar in a hot dog since it's in the bun already?
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- Try living without it. Idiots. You can drown in water, but it is a necessity to life. This is what is consideed 'news' nowadays.
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