The Health Weblog
A lot of times when you read new health info on the internet, you have to take it with a grain of salt.
Well Eric Lipton helps shed some new light on just how bad that can get with his piece at the NYT on the shadowy showdown between the Sugar and Corn Industries and their operators (which hopefully doesn’t include the Rutgers work on Soda).
The digest reads abit like one of those old “Spy Vs. Spy” cartoons,…
So this interesting study came out echoing some previous thoughts on fast-carbs, and ultimately supported the idea of eating your fruit instead of drinking it.
One of the more clever things it Did do, was to note that some fruits more than others were associated with health problems like Diabetes.
But some of the other things it wasn’t really focused on, was to suggest reasons Why, or to fill in too many of the blanks.
So on that note, here are a few thoughts on it you might want to consider:…
OLÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ!!!!!
FINALLY you don’t have to go out all the way to the Health Food Store to get your hands on some non-lethal, non-sugar sweetener.
Years and years after the Nutrasweet corporation helped to scuttle Stevia into the “Supplements” category, even though it’s been on the GRAS list in Europe for quite awhile, it -or at least MegaCorp Cargill’s version of the sweetener is now GRAS as far as El Fed is concerned…
Track 4 from “Transistor”, by 311
-or a Star Wars Trilogy Sandwich.
Okay, this one’s been on the shelf and now the hot weather is officially here, I thought it was time to send it out.
Awhile back, I noticed a google ad here on the site and thought, “Soda with Stevia? -NO WAY!” -I immediately shot out an email & Stacey Fujimura + the good folks at Zevia sent us out a sixpack of their soda…
EN GARDE, Soda Drinkers!!!
:( No, this is not an entry on how to make a sub-nuclear pipe bomb out of a 2-Liter Splenda-fied bottle of Diet Coke, 2oz. Ammonia, #0000 Steel Wool, and a pack of Mentos. (try BoingBoing for that)
Researcher Extraordinarie, Dr. Chi Tang Ho and his associates at Rutgers Food Science Department have tested several carbonated sodas containing that longtime HT “Agent Smith”…
(-or most any soda, for that matter)
I admit I used to be a big fan of Coke, until I found out a few of the joys of what High Fructose Corn Syrup, that Crack Cocaine of sugars, does to you.
-So it’s back to tea, because artificial sweeneners don’t look much better.
-If only they would start making Coke with Stevia instead of sugar, artificials, or HFCS…
