Tunescribe

All right fatties, you know who you are. (If you have any doubt, a person has traditionally been considered to be obese if they are more than 20 percent over their ideal weight.)

As you suck down another soda, be mindful that you also are sucking on my wallet. More than guns, more than cigarettes, OBESITY is a leading threat to the health and well-being of Americans from coast to coast. And it also is a HUGE burden on both our tax and healthcare systems.

Obesity Trumps Smoking As American Health Burden | WBUR & NPR

Quote: You know what used to be -- smoking used to be the biggest cause of preventable death and disease, and today, as fewer people smoke and obesity rates creep up, obesity has now surpassed smoking as the biggest burden on America's health, according to a study out this week in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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DocHoliday

We'll have no progress until HFCS is banned.

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Tunescribe

Bah. It's the chemical equivalent of sugar, it'll NEVER be banned. America's fat slobs simply have poor eating and lifestyle habits; there is NO EXCUSE! It's a matter of simple common sense.

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DocHoliday

No it's really not.

If you're familiar with glycolysis you'll know it it's the first of many breakdown systems used to extract energy from sugars. Glucose is the ideal sugar and the primary input for this process.

Fructose (features in high fructose corn syrup) also is used here, but it enters about halfway through as it is processed separately before joining.

It just so happens that by skipping the first couple steps you miss one of the crucial feedback mechanisms in the overall reaction that slows down the process if there's too much sugar already.

Gross oversimplification but HFCS disrupts the normal sugar regulation of the body. A good analogy is giving your car gas without it 'counting' toward your gas gauge. You won't know how much gas you really have!

This is not to minimize our poor eating habits at all, you are right. But it would probably help the people who don't pay attention to their diet quite a bit.

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Tunescribe

This says HFCS and sugar are identical nutritionally:

Nutrition Question Answered: Is White Sugar Better Than High Fructose Corn Syrup?

Quote: Both are bad for your health when consumed in excessive amounts because eating too much of either one might promote weight gain, and neither sweetener has any nutritive value beyond the calories. Some people believe HFCS is more dangerous to your health than regular sugar, but those claims aren't based on science.

Beyond this argument, the matter is moot if you minimize intake of processed foods which often are food-like "products" masquerading as food.

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Real World

Hmmm...now which one of you is this?

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Real World

I blame transfats....




...and HFCS...

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
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Hamar

Study: Overweight People Live Longer

People who are over weight but not obese live longer than people that are considered at proper weight or under. Of course since almost all weight studies use BMI as a guide they are all wrong since BMI is a tool for pharmaceutical companies and so forth to make money.

Claremonster

Sugar needs to be banned! Corn also! No more cows! Their farts are melting the glaciers!

Who cares about the friggin national debt. We never had a damn thing to do with it. Just push the reset on the monetary debt. Start over. It happened multiple times in the past. Money is just a few keystrokes on a computer these days.

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IllegalContact

people are fat because they can't control their intake while sitting on their fat arses watching Dr. Oz

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