"Sugar: The Bitter Truth"
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guslBest dieting tip ever: wait up to 20 minutes for the satiation to arrive. It's working for me.
This is from "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", by UCSF professor Robert Lustig who said "High Fructose Corn Syrup is Poison", with convincing evidence that it causes metabolic syndrome and the obesity epidemic. http://www.sweetsurprise.com/
"There is something wrong with our biochemical energy feedback system."
"fructose goes way beyond empty calories. It is a poison."
"AFAIAC, this stuff was Japan's revenge for World War II"
HFCS is so cheap that it has found its way into everything: hamburger buns, sauce, ketchup, most loaves of bread.
The Coca-Cola conspiracy: coke has lots of salt, the sodium makes you thirsty; the sugar hides the salt!
Some schools performed the intervention of cutting out coke machines, and it had a significant effect on obesity and type II diabetes.
On a minor point, he made this statistician (and former logician) cringe once or twice (by assuming Gaussianity, interpreting a defeasible argument as a deductive one and declaring "only the contrapositive is transitive") but his central message seems to be sound, and of course very important.
* - ("lustig" means "funny" in German)
This is from "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", by UCSF professor Robert Lustig who said "High Fructose Corn Syrup is Poison", with convincing evidence that it causes metabolic syndrome and the obesity epidemic. http://www.sweetsurprise.com/
"There is something wrong with our biochemical energy feedback system."
"fructose goes way beyond empty calories. It is a poison."
"AFAIAC, this stuff was Japan's revenge for World War II"
HFCS is so cheap that it has found its way into everything: hamburger buns, sauce, ketchup, most loaves of bread.
The Coca-Cola conspiracy: coke has lots of salt, the sodium makes you thirsty; the sugar hides the salt!
Some schools performed the intervention of cutting out coke machines, and it had a significant effect on obesity and type II diabetes.
On a minor point, he made this statistician (and former logician) cringe once or twice (by assuming Gaussianity, interpreting a defeasible argument as a deductive one and declaring "only the contrapositive is transitive") but his central message seems to be sound, and of course very important.
* - ("lustig" means "funny" in German)