Thursday, May 28, 2009

Sugar in soft drinks

This is a really cool idea: let us visualize the amount of sugar in the soft drinks, compared with everything we eat.

Here is the website.




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  1. AnonymousMay 29, 2009 at 2:42 PM

    The truth is even more profound than these images, because most processed food/beverages use fructose in addition to simple sugar. So please read the ingrediant labels on foods and watch out for AKA: FRUCTOSE, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, OR CORN SYRUP.

    Reason:
    1. Unlike regular foods, including sugar(sucrose), fats, proteins which raise leptins giving us satiety(feeling full/satisfied), fructose sugar counteracts leptins, resulting in UNFULFILLED CRAVINGS, and more eating.

    2. Unlike regular sugar and carbohydrates that metablize into glucose, which the body, muscle, and brain use to make energy (i.e. ATP), fructose can only be metabolized in the liver into fatty acids. Hence, while biochemically it is a sugar, our body see it as fat, directly increase lipids and obesity.

    3. Also, while fructose is a sugar, it behaves as an alcohol (ethanol) in the liver, causing fatty liver steatosis, or liver damage similar to chronic alcohol abuse.

    So, as you can see, while the images of all these sugar cubes are quite compelling, the damages are far beyond such simple comparison. In the Prajna parlance: a fructose is a sugar, that is not a sugar, that is a fat, that is not a fat, that is an alcohol ester, that is not an alcohol.

    Sai liang

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