Posted on 02/15/2005 1:14:03 PM PST by Gustov
The Sugar Association pays for a “consumer” Web site to scare the public with pseudo-science about Splenda.
Instead of trying to make the competition look bad, the sugar industry should promote the fact that there are only about 16 calories in a teaspoon of refined sugar. Most people cringe when they add a couple of teaspoons of sugar to a cup of coffee thinking they just put on four pounds of fat.
Why does sugar never spoil?
I have no idea, but I'm sure you can tell me.
No, LOL.
I know it sounds like the set up for a joke... but you sounded so knowledgeable about sugar, I just thought I'd ask. :o)
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Pure honey is a better sweetner. Your body metabolizes it faster than regular sugar.
I really don't know, but salt and pepper don't go bad either. I'm sure there are other things as well along those same lines.
I figured you were going to tell me there was some sort of preservative involved, so I was consuming chemicals anyway, making me look like a dumba**.
All things are good in moderation.
You know, I really don't use much sugar. I do use a lot of honey, though. It is great to cook with (honey and soy sauce make a fabulous marinade), and it is perfect for making homemade bread.
I'll Google the question some time when I'm bored.
It's just that anything with sugar in it spoils so rapidly, that I wondered why it, itself, is immune.
Most candy doesn't spoil, but baked goods do. Flour doesn't spoil, so it must just be baked goods made with dairy products that go bad. Perhaps the substances discussed have no water content. Things with any moisture at all would go bad, things with no misture would not. Just a guess. FReepmail me if you ever look it up.
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When I was diagnosed, I made a study of low-sugar / low-carbohydrate diets and the rationales for them. Apparently, sugar, despite its low calorie content -- far lower than most people would suppose -- can be a "fattener" by virtue of its ability to trigger a metabolic shift into a depressed mode, where very few calories of any sort are consumed. As others here have said, the occasional use of sugar by a non-diabetic is just fine, but its overuse can catapult you into a metabolc cul-de-sac in which, no matter how few calories you eat, the pounds just refuse to come off.
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