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Fruit vs. sugary drinks

April 1, 2012 4:00 PM

Though fruit contains sugars, nutritional biologist Kimber Stanhope says it also has nutritional value and isn't absorbed by the body in the same way as sugary drinks.

Is sugar toxic?
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by heidelja June 1, 2012 2:09 PM EDT
So how many fruit servings were shown in the video? 6,8,10,12?
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by sbijan666 April 17, 2012 1:07 PM EDT
When you consider that the tobacco industry laced cigarettes with the most addictive and harmful substances why should this be a surprise to us . Most of our food today is produced by corporate giants where the only thing that matters to them is the bottom line . It would be laughable to think that Coca Cola company gives a hoot that millions of children grow up obese and sick sugar addicts . They make Billions a year and will continue selling their legal poison to people around the world . Do not wait for the government or the industry to come to your rescue . Educate yourself and your children and that's your only hope .
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by RMF007 April 6, 2012 10:34 AM EDT
We would be happy to sit down with CBS news and discuss these diets and the importance of looking for heart disease and cancer using the best methods available and to work with CBS news to help establish the types of studies necessary to address many of these important health issues. Please let us know.
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by heppa50 April 2, 2012 6:23 PM EDT
This is so amazing!! However, we (as a nation) have been hooked on ETOH and tobacco products before. To say that our food industries have done it to us again with sugar is a bygone conglusion....
There is hope that science will bore out these new findings and give birth to an industry-wide change. Unfortunately, until the link to cancer,cardiovascular disease,and obesity are made the government won't step in to curb continued sugar usage.
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