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Truth or myth?: Revisiting some popular misconceptions
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| 5-11-05
| John Stossel
Posted on 05/11/2005 5:24:39 AM PDT by FlyLow
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:24:39 AM PDT
by
FlyLow
To: FlyLow
Yep, though drinking a lot of water is certainly not bad for you. As long as it's not Evian.
To: FlyLow
Doesn't matter if it's sugar or mashed potatoes ~ all same thing.
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:36:38 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: FlyLow
anybody that thinks sugar doesn't get kids hyped up hasn't been to a kid's birthday party.
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:40:09 AM PDT
by
Homer1
To: FlyLow
I don't care what the research says. When my kid was a kid (she's grown now) a candy bar or other sugar source would make her absolutely bounce off the walls..........
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:40:18 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember, Jimmy Carter can still run for another term as President..........)
To: muawiyah
Mashed potatoes = starch = carbohydrate = sugar.........
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:41:24 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember, Jimmy Carter can still run for another term as President..........)
To: FlyLow
Was the research paid for by Tate & Lyle, by any chance?
To: Homer1
It's a birthday party, kids are going to get excited wether or not they have sugar.
But on the other hand, I think for most people when you have enough sugar, it will effect you.
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:45:16 AM PDT
by
kx9088
To: Red Badger
Denatured disaccharides do not have the same food effect as, for instance, mashed potatoes.
Try eating just sugar for a week: your body's immune system would collapse. Mashed potatoes on the other hand - you could live off them for a long time if you had to.
To: FlyLow
Strongly disagree. I've chaperoned school field trips and watched the behavior change after the junk in their lunch bags is consumed. I've watched them after their Valentine's Day or Halloween goodies are eaten. And, the primary sweetener for decades (coincidental with the rise in ADD/ADHD, by the way) is corn syrup, a seed product (not sugar - read the labels). Then, go search: ADHD food, and see what you find. Corn product/sweetener is in everything these days (baby formula, cereals, snacks, soda, juice-boxes, candy, baked goods, cooking oil). Do you suppose little, growing bodies might possibly react to being saturated daily by a particular seed food? But, I'm sure the Corn Growers Association can prove otherwise.
To: polymuser
I agree. When my son has something with High Fructose Corn Syrup in it, he goes bananas.
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:50:54 AM PDT
by
loborojo
(What the hell is a "Reagan Democrat"?)
To: agere_contra
.....your body's immune system would collapse. Then why do hospitals put people on IV's with sugar water?........(or do they?).........
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:54:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember, Jimmy Carter can still run for another term as President..........)
To: HowardDeanScream08
As long as it's not Evian. Next time you see someone drinking Evian find a mirror and hold the bottle's label up to it so that they can read the name properly.
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:58:19 AM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
To: Red Badger
Mashed potatoes = starch = carbohydrate = sugar.........
I don't care what the research says. When my kid was a kid (she's grown now) a candy bar or other sugar source would make her absolutely bounce off the walls..........Did the mashed potatoes make her bounce off the walls, too?
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posted on
05/11/2005 5:58:35 AM PDT
by
raybbr
To: Homer1
The kid is hyper because he's at a party, not because of the food.
Try holding a kid's birthday party at a pizza place, with a birthday pizza. You'll find that the kids act JUST as hyper.
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posted on
05/11/2005 6:00:07 AM PDT
by
gogogodzilla
(Raaargh! Raaargh! Crush, Stomp!)
To: raybbr
She didn't like mashed potatoes for some reason. She thought they tasted like paste..........How she knew what paste tasted like I don't want to know.......
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posted on
05/11/2005 6:02:03 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Remember, Jimmy Carter can still run for another term as President..........)
To: raybbr
Mashed potatoes = starch = carbohydrate = sugar.....
Meatloaf and some gravy = naptime for me!
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posted on
05/11/2005 6:04:30 AM PDT
by
freebird5850
("Tell the truth, there's less to remember!")
To: polymuser
But, I'm sure the Corn Growers Association can prove otherwise. I forgot to include drug companies. Need to keep those school medicine cabinets full of Ritalin-LA, Adderall-XR, Concerta, Metadate-CD, Strattera, Focalin, Atomoxetine, Modafinil. Hey, it's a $1B/year business drugging those kids.
To: All
Just a thought but certainly most soft drinks have a pretty good jolt (for a kid anyway) of caffeine and to a lesser degree some chocolate products.
Might in some cases it's the caffeine rather than the sugar (although I haven't a clue on the latter, everything made my kids hyper).
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posted on
05/11/2005 6:10:31 AM PDT
by
Proud_texan
(We have met the enemy and he is us.)
To: FlyLow
"Did you know that if you stew cranberries like applesauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does?"
-- Groucho Marx ;o)
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posted on
05/11/2005 6:14:07 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Mein Luftkissenboot ist mit Aalen voll.)
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