Posted on 10/25/2011 8:24:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
1 Soda A Day Equals 50 Pounds Of Sugar A Year, Says NYC Health Department October 25, 2011 10:04 AM
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The New York City Health Department is launching a new campaign to show just how much sugar is in a can of soda.
The health department says drinking one soda a day equals 50 pounds of sugar a year, which can lead to problems like obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
“Sugary drinks are the largest single source of added sugar in the diet, and a child’s risk of obesity increases with every additional daily serving of a sugary drink,” said New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley in a statement.
Cathy Nonas, director of the city’s physical activity and nutrition program, says that 50 pounds of extra sugar can be harmful to the body.
“When we’re looking at a city where there is an epidemic of overweight and obesity and we look at the diseases that are associated with obesity, even in young kids, 50 pounds of sugar a year, of added sugar to rest of the diet, is way too much,” Nonas told 1010 WINS.
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How do they measure high fructose corn syrup as 50 pounds of sugar?
The NYC Health Department needs to call for ending sugar subsidies.
A good day!
“So one wonders just why they can’t cut sugar or corn syrup in half.”
Sales.
Years ago, Pepsi marketed a Pepsi that was half real, half diet. 60 calories a can, and I couldn’t tell the difference between it and real Pepsi - but no one bought it.
Baskin-Robbins once marketed diet ice cream, only to find it both didn’t sell, and hurt sales of their regular ice cream.
It’s not nanny state to spread information.
Sugar and HFCS are both equally bad for you, and Americans eat way too much of them causing massive health problems
I’m going to caution that the labeling on a can of coke speaks of the information per serving. A serving is 6oz - half a can. If one consumes the entire can, the ingested amounts will be double the listed amount.
The country’s falling apart and they worry about sugar?
Sugar is a renewable resource.... good for the economy...
50% of the RDA.
Yeah, all that fructose and glucose. Much worse than sucrose.
It’s not the sugar that makes you fat, it’s the high fructose corn syrup........
Not for me. Fats and sugar got me. I have little exposure to corn syrup.
So if I drink Pepsi Throwback I’ll get skinny again?
Probably more the fat than the sugar, but too much of anything will be bad for you. Everything in moderation............
Everything in moderation........
No No No democrats of liberals for me.
No. Sucrose (table sugar) is made of fructose and glucose, just like HFCS. In almost exactly the same ratio.
Ratio is irrelevant. What is relevant is ease of bonding & decomposition. There's the exact same "ratio" of carbon in graphite as in diamond (~100%, in fact), but that doesn't mean that they are both as easy to fracture...
It's pretty easy for your body to break sucrose into fructose and glucose.
First, sucrose is composed of equal amounts of the two simple sugars -- it is 50 percent fructose and 50 percent glucose -- but the typical high-fructose corn syrup used in this study features a slightly imbalanced ratio, containing 55 percent fructose and 42 percent glucose. Larger sugar molecules called higher saccharides make up the remaining 3 percent of the sweetener. Second, as a result of the manufacturing process for high-fructose corn syrup, the fructose molecules in the sweetener are free and unbound, ready for absorption and utilization. In contrast, every fructose molecule in sucrose that comes from cane sugar or beet sugar is bound to a corresponding glucose molecule and must go through an extra metabolic step before it can be utilized.
So it seems they are NOT metabolized the same way.
I know, you don't want to lose the money you make selling your corn to ADM. I sympathize... but your economic incentives are no excuse for pimping health hazards...
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