15-06-2012, 08:09 AM
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Sugar:The Bitter Truth
Please listen to this lecture, it is excellent and speaks a lot of truths.You will need a pot of tea and a hour and half spare to listen to it all, but please bear with it.
Sugar:The Bitter Truth
15-06-2012, 08:55 AM
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Re: Sugar:The Bitter Truth
Originally Posted by Wrinkly
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Please listen to this lecture, it is excellent and speaks a lot of truths.You will need a pot of tea and a hour and half spare to listen to it all, but please bear with it.
Sugar:The Bitter Truth
15-06-2012, 09:41 AM
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Re: Sugar:The Bitter Truth
Arthur did you watch the programme on BBC 2 last night, the content was very similar..'The men who made us fat '
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...Fat_Episode_1/
Nothing new there, just confirming what many of know about heavily processed food.
The answer for me has always been make you own food, eat a varied diet, avoid processed rubbish ..
15-06-2012, 10:03 AM
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Re: Sugar:The Bitter Truth
Originally Posted by plantman
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Any chance of a quick precis...?
I haven't yet had chance to listen to Arthur's link in detail but the programme I watched (mentioned above) was about the call in the 60's for cheap food in the US leading to Richard Nixon transforming US agricultural and getting rid of the small farmsteads in favour huge corn producing farms. A process was found allowing the corn to be turned into cornsyrup (a type of fructose) which is sweeter than sugar and cheap to produce and this was added to just about every food imaginable. The farmers got rich and people were encouraged to eat larger and larger portions of fructose laden food. Cola is prime example of one of these 'foods' .This action of adding this 'fructose' to the diet had a devastating effect on our bodies because of the way we metabolise food and is thought by some to be the main cause of the obesity problem we see now.
This is only a fraction of what the programme was about , the other part is next week...
15-06-2012, 11:06 AM
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I don't normally get to see a whole programme but I was captivated although I do think that the presentation oversimplified the arguments about obesity somewhat.The overall impression to me was based on Fat Good - Sugar Bad which as we all know is just not the case and is almost as dangerous as the view from 60's and 70's which basically supported the use of sugars in all their forms as a replacement for fat.
It didn't give much of a view about consumption control , diet , exercise, health and fitness but did manage to put the blame squarely on the toes of Government ,politicians ,big business and food industry in general.
Anybody else have any views?
15-06-2012, 11:17 AM
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Re: Sugar:The Bitter Truth
Originally Posted by Meg
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Barry I haven't yet had chance to listen to Arthur's link in detail but the programme I watched (mentioned above) was about the call in the 60's for cheap food in the US leading to Richard Nixon transforming US agricultural and getting rid of the small farmsteads in favour huge corn producing farms. A process was found allowing the corn to be turned into cornsyrup (a type of fructose) which is sweeter than sugar and cheap to produce and this was added to just about every food imaginable. The farmers got rich and people were encouraged to eat larger and larger portions of fructose laden food. Cola is prime example of one of these 'foods' .This action of adding this 'fructose' to the diet had a devastating effect on our bodies because of the way we metabolise food and is thought by some to be the main cause of the obesity problem we see now.
This is only a fraction of what the programme was about , the other part is next week...
15-06-2012, 03:54 PM
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Re: Sugar:The Bitter Truth
I have to admit a McDonald's Big Mac does it for me! I would sooner that to a home cooked roast any day of the week. However, knowing how bad junk food is for one, I only indulge in my 'sinful' pleasure very rarely, and only when I have a grandchild with me as an excuse!
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