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To: Graybeard58

OMFG THANK YOU! I’ve been beating this drum for over ten years!

Go to any grocer and grab a bottle of fat-free ranch and a bottle of regular ranch. Turn over to the dietary labels. Ignore the fat and look at the sugar content. ANY food without fat is virtually flavorless sans spicing. To replace/supplement flavor, they have to use an agent such as sugar to impart flavor.

Mark my words in this thread on this day: a MAJORITY of findings during the fat-free craze of the 80s will be found to be wholly and completely false over the next decade. SUGAR is the reason we are, as a society, getting so fat.

If you have to look for a XXXX-Free food, look for sugar- free. You’d be better off. Fat imparts flavor, it is a vital nutrient for the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins and minerals, and it is the biggest component to feelings of satiety during a meal.


13 posted on 07/05/2012 12:12:36 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: rarestia

HFCS gets blamed a lot, and though science hasn’t pinpointed the reason why, there are some provocative suggestions. An excess of fructose is an express road to the creation of fat. And compared to sucrose it’s not as satisfying in a beverage and leads to more after-cravings. If you do use sugar, use plain old cane or beet sugar.


18 posted on 07/05/2012 12:17:13 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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To: rarestia

Rarestia, with all due respect, the four letter acronym you used at the beginning of your post makes me cringe. Do you know what it stands for? It’s awful.


47 posted on 07/05/2012 1:11:45 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: rarestia
Forget the sugar, look for the chemical flavor enhancers in ranch and most other kinds of salad dressing. MSG is not the worst, disodium insonate and disodium guynalate and about a dozen others. These things can do bad stuff to you if you develop a sensitivity to them and the more you use it the more likely that is to happen.
49 posted on 07/05/2012 1:19:30 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: rarestia

Fat and cholesterol are brain food.


51 posted on 07/05/2012 1:25:04 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: rarestia

Eggs are bad - No eggs are good.
Butter is bad - No butter is good.
Milk is bad - No milk is good.

One day in the not too distant future some scientist is going to say that tobacco is good, it is just the filter that was bad.


52 posted on 07/05/2012 1:38:03 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (ABO 2012)
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To: rarestia

Maybe but I would suggest that eating too many calories and not having enough expenditure of same in your daily life (ie the couch potatoes who play video games) is a the primary cause.


57 posted on 07/05/2012 2:09:48 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: rarestia

The anti-fat nazis just about killed us all. Replacing fats with simple carbs was a disaster. The evidence had been there for over 20 years too.


63 posted on 07/05/2012 2:33:27 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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