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Post by ukbill on Mar 20, 2013 6:01:30 GMT -5
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Post by charlie on Mar 21, 2013 4:53:48 GMT -5
Oh dear, Bills off again.......  I think I shall suggest to his family that on his gravestone ( if he ever pops his clogs) they engrave the words DON'T MENTION SUGAR but thanks for alerting to this programme as I missed it but watched it last night on iplayer. One problem is it is only half an hour long so there is alot of information to cram in to that time but to be honest i found it very interesting and informative. I would argue really about how safe the artificial sweeteners are as they only used one expert but the rest wasn't inaccurate it was just brief. It was interesting to see how sugar was made and that brown sugar is actually more refined than white as they add molasses back in to it to make it brown. They only touched very briefly on fructose. Again because of time. One very interesting thing that they covered was vaccines. someone on here posted about sugar in them as a query, well yes, it may be possible. I need to rewatch it to get the whole gist but basically they use sugar to stabilise the vaccine in storage and transportation to prevent water absorption I think it was. They infuse a sugar strip with the vaccine and transport it that way, then they squeeze the vaccine out before use, so surely some sugar must filter through, although again I would assume we are talking small amounts so you would have to weigh up the risks of not having the vaccine etc, but not going down that argument again. So not sure you have much to moan about here Bill, they were more just explaining basics about sugar, it wasn't meant to be a health warning programme so slightly concerned they may think your post on their page is one of a health cranK. But thanks for the tip off on the programme, it was interesting. |
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Post by ukbill on Mar 21, 2013 5:33:20 GMT -5
Moan ME?  How dare you! LOL To be honest several people have pointed out the program to me before I sat down to watch it and it was they who said it was highly unbalanced.. to which I still agree. The program totally misses the point and do not mention that most of the Glucose we get in our diet comes from the breakdown of Carbs and starches.. (or should be anyway!) and they treat Fructose and Glucose as identical chemicals, which we here all know is totally wrong! Yes the Vaccine thing was interesting if not slightly worrying for me with HFI.. I really hope they are using Dextrose to "glassify" the vaccine? The section on the test between tasting an artificial sweetener and glucose was fatally flawed though and totally pointless, 25% of the sugar contained in a drink will be adsorbed through the skin in the mouth (and throat) before it reaches even the stomach. So washing her mouth out with a glucose solution will give her brain a kick of glucose and so effect the results.. If not then why do Paramedics put sugar under the tongue of a diabetic patent to stop them going into a Hypo coma? Also the effect of the response depends on how long it is since she ate a meal and what she ate etc.. By their usually excellent standards this was a very poorly designed and thought out program which contained a lot of iffy or poor science in it.. Moaning over How about this for an epitaph on my grave stone.. " He came .. he moaned a lot.. then left" However I would prefer " He came.. he kicked some proverbial ass.. then left" I still think Spike Milligan's epitaph is the best "I told you I was ill" Which the church insisted be put in Gallic to be allowed on his gravestone.. which is even madder than most of Spikes work. I think he would have seen the joke though. |
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