Text 29441, 75 rader
Skriven 2012-09-10 14:53:04 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 29304 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Re: Another Ithaca Farmer
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-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to NANCY BACKUS on 07 Sep 12  07:50:08 <=-

 JK> Trying to catch up :)  Hope all is well over there. I think this
 JK> message will be somewhat close to where I was hehe 

That's the beauty of using offline message packets, there's no ambiguity
as to where one left off... even if it's days and days... ;)
 
 RH>> The corn industry probably paid for that one.
 JK>> Yes, indeed... it was just too obvious.
 
 NB>> There was actually a series of those ads, and there was an attribution
 NB>> of payment from some segment of the corn industry, down in the corner of
 NB>> the screen, in tiny print.

 JK> Sure, that's the norm.. tiny tiny tiny print.. geez.
 
This was actually readable, not quite so tiny as the Drug Disclaimers...

 NB>>  Not sure if they've been pulled, my TV
 NB>> watching is only at other people's houses, as a captive audience... Each
 NB>> ad had some "concerned parent" or some such doing the talking, and
 NB>> "sugar is sugar, no matter what form... used by the body the same way"
 NB>> was part of the spiel...  One wonders what that means for the rest of
 NB>> the refined sugars...  ;0

 JK> Sure, all sugar is not the best for people, but 'corn' sugar seems to
 JK> stick worse.. and the difference to me is the doggone corn.. Eoin for
 JK> one can't have any corn products.. Then you know, we keep reading
 JK> about HFCS and WHY it's bad.. 

Where my thinking was going (yes, I can get rather contrarian at times)
was that since some of us know that certain sugars, HFCS among them, are
indeed detrimental, and now youguys are saying there's no difference,
sugar is sugar, then what you really must be saying is that ALL sugar is
equally bad for you...  ;)   Yes, I know that they thought they were
saying that all are just fine for you, but there you are... ;)

 JK> This was from 2010 at Princeton:
 JK> "A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all
 JK> sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with
 JK> access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight
 JK> than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric
 JK> intake was the same. 
 JK> In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals,
 JK> long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal
 JK> increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in
 JK> circulating blood fats called triglycerides. The researchers say the
 JK> work sheds light on the factors contributing to obesity trends in the
 JK> United States." 
 JK> I wanna say "so there" to the corn industry :)
 
Too bad they have their fingers in their ears...  

 >> Actually sausage and peppers in red sauce was real big in Orange
 >> County at the county fair, and in Westchester and Orange county's
 >> fireman's parades.. That's southeastern NY.  I was in a number of
 >> parades back in high school since I played drums in a drum corps (g).
 >> I wonder if it's just a "fireman's thing" regardless of where they are
 >> :)
 > Up here, and I think also up in the Adirondacks, one is more likely to
 > find sausage with peppers and onions, no red sauce...  But it is still
 > often a "fireman's thing"...

 JK> hehe.. interesting.  Well, we sure loved those subs with sausage,
 JK> peppers, onions and red marinara sauce.  Couldn't wait for the parade
 JK> to end sometimes :)

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, perhaps one could say...?  :)

ttyl       neb

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