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Looking at Bloomberg’s Soda Ban Through a Doughnut Hole
NY Times ^ | June 1, 2012 | N. R. KLEINFIELD

Posted on 06/02/2012 3:28:24 PM PDT by neverdem

“Hey, let me have one of those suckers.”

“Can I get two? One for Mom.”

“Awesome, this really does the trick.”

So, yes, people were scooping up free doughnuts with vigor outside Madison Square Park on Friday morning. It was, after all, National Donut Day, the 75th annual celebration of the confection, and Entenmann’s, the big sweet goods maker, had some 7,500 of its iconic Rich Frosted doughnuts available for the taking.

The Salvation Army, which started the whole thing in 1938 to honor women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I, was on hand too, furnishing coffee.

There were children in strollers and people with canes and a man with his American water spaniel — all of them grabbing doughnuts and shoveling them in.

As things go, from the perspective of one particular New Yorker, this was not the most propitious time for the celebration to roll along.

Only the day before, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had declared his intention to ban sugared plus-size sodas at many outlets to help fight obesity. And yet he had also proclaimed Friday “NYC Donut Day.” The handsome proclamation was right there to see, perched on an easel beside a box of four very plus-size demonstration doughnuts that Entenmann’s had produced for the occasion (they were actually made of bagel dough so they wouldn’t fall apart).

The regular-size Entenmann’s doughnuts each contain 280 calories, 170 of them from fat, appreciably more fat calories than in many of the gargantuan beverages the mayor has targeted.

If this juxtaposition seemed, well, odd, the mayor was reminded of it, quite emphatically, when he showed up on Friday morning on the “Today” show to promote his antisoda plan, only to have the host Matt Lauer give him the business about saying no to big sodas...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloomberg
This avatar of the nanny state has worn out his welcome and, calorically speaking, looks like a hypocrite. Daddy Warbucks should have gotten his Bloomberg School of Public Health cracking on the use of fifty five percent high fructose corn syrup in soft drinks. That syrup also has forty two percent glucose. That's just shy of a 4:3 ratio. It might not be just the calories, stupid, or the lack of exercise. Fructose is rapidly metabolized to glycerol the spine of triglycerides. When you combine glycerol with free fatty acids you get triglycerides.

When you Google fructose triglyceride lipogenesis you'll get "about 463,000 results." HFCS in soft drinks has been suspected long enough. It was introduced in the early 1970s. Since then our obesity epidemic has taken off. It's high time for a couple of population studies of sucrose, i.e. table sugar, sweetened soft drinks versus HFCS-55 sweetened soft drinks.

Fructose, insulin resistance, and metabolic dyslipidemia

Pediatric Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) was first reported in 1983.[24] It is currently the primary form of liver disease among children.[25] NAFLD has been associated with the metabolic syndrome, which is a cluster of risk factors that contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Studies have demonstrated that abdominal obesity and insulin-resistance in particular are thought to be key contributors to the development of NAFLD.[26][27][28][29]/a>

Fructose Consumption as a Risk Factor for Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

1 posted on 06/02/2012 3:28:34 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

I’ve noticed that sucrose versions of pop are more satisfying than HFCS versions. The extra helping of fructose in HFCS, is it of itself enough to generate the fat found in modern obesity? I’d think any whammy would have to be double to really have an impact — that HFCS has less power than sucrose to bring about a sense of satiety.


2 posted on 06/02/2012 3:36:59 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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To: neverdem
Only the day before, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had declared his intention to ban sugared plus-size sodas at many outlets to help fight obesity.

This isn't sugar regulation.

How much will it take for people to finally see it for what it is?

Wanton tyranny!

3 posted on 06/02/2012 3:37:23 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: EGPWS

But it’s tyranny for our own good.

/s


4 posted on 06/02/2012 4:03:28 PM PDT by samtheman (select environmentalists with clue > 0 .... Result set: no rows returned)
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To: samtheman
But it’s tyranny for our own good.

Yep, and the next candidate for NYC mayor just has to campaign on sugar regulation and a mandate to wear a safety harness whenever eating sugar and THEY will win by a landslide!

5 posted on 06/02/2012 4:07:39 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: neverdem

6 posted on 06/02/2012 4:33:59 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: neverdem

I hope Bloomberg becomes a verb in the lexicon. “I went to the drive in the other night and I wanted a large drink but I got bloomberged. They only had 10 ounce drinks.”


7 posted on 06/02/2012 4:38:52 PM PDT by Harley (Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
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To: neverdem

It just keeps getting weirder. They’re running out of “good” stuff to control. Next up.. mandatory portion control and excercise on electric generated treadmills.
With 15 minutes of sunlight a day..anymore is harmful.


8 posted on 06/02/2012 4:41:58 PM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the Statist)
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To: Leep

electric genorating that is.


9 posted on 06/02/2012 4:43:11 PM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the Statist)
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To: Leep
It looks like taking care of those fat slob welfare bums is getting a might expensive.
10 posted on 06/02/2012 5:54:51 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (No matter who you elect,the government eventually gets in.)
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To: Leep

Yep, I can see all the health clubs and treadmills
in the country hooked up to the grid.

Have you done your part today Citizen?

Is it getting dim in here or is it just me?
It’s just you, rest period is over, back on
the treadmill, citizen.


11 posted on 06/02/2012 6:02:04 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Think they’ll be able to tell if it’s my dog on the treadmill instead of me?


12 posted on 06/02/2012 7:33:35 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

That’s easy, if it’s putting out electricity,
it’s the dog.


13 posted on 06/02/2012 8:11:23 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: neverdem
You can't get a large soda at the movies in NYC, but you can get a giant bucket of buttered popcorn and plenty of candy to go with it. ;-)


14 posted on 06/02/2012 8:26:39 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: EGPWS

Here’s an idea, why not declare meat, HFCS, and tobacco controlled substances and be done with it? Prohibition worked real well didn’t it?/s I could just see the gang bangers trafficing in Big Macs, Marlboros, Super-sized Slurpees, etc.


15 posted on 06/02/2012 8:59:14 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Brown Deer
That stuff is next. Soon the only thing in NYC you will be able to eat is tofu,greens and weak tea.
Or maybe green crackers made from homeless,sick or poor people. That might be in limited supply and available one day a week. Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green Day.
16 posted on 06/03/2012 3:29:20 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Brown Deer

Bump to Liberal idiocy.


17 posted on 06/06/2012 4:32:19 PM PDT by fanfan (.http://www.ontariolandowners.ca/index.php?p=1_50_Your-Rights)
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To: neverdem
The solution to the 'metabolic' problem is HERE and its all about eating vegetable fats, a big mistake in most cases, except for flax, coconut, and olive oils.
18 posted on 06/06/2012 6:27:21 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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