Comments on: Health Headlines I Just Couldn’t Avoid–November 17, 2008 http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/health-headlines-i-just-couldnt-avoid-november-17-2008/2968 To educate, encourage, and inspire the world to start low-carb living Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:48:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: susan allport http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/health-headlines-i-just-couldnt-avoid-november-17-2008/2968/comment-page-1#comment-12227 susan allport Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:44:12 +0000 http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/?p=2968#comment-12227 Thought you would be interested in this short omega-3 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIgNpsbvcVM <i>LOVED IT, Susan! I'm contacting you now about coming on my podcast. --Jimmy</i> Thought you would be interested in this short omega-3 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIgNpsbvcVM

LOVED IT, Susan! I’m contacting you now about coming on my podcast.

–Jimmy

]]> By: Peter Silverman, Ashland, OR http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/health-headlines-i-just-couldnt-avoid-november-17-2008/2968/comment-page-1#comment-12226 Peter Silverman, Ashland, OR Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:14:47 +0000 http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/?p=2968#comment-12226 Interesting that in Gary Taubes' interview today in Michael Eades's blog, he seems more emphatic about sugar being the biggest culprit in our diet. He says it's the relative absence of sugar that is the main reason Asians do well on the high carb Asian diet. He said he left out of his book that sugar is the cause of gout. And he's thinking about sugar as the subject of his next book. <i>That's GREAT! I think the more voices of concern that are out there about the damaging impact of sugar and substances like HFCS, the better! --Jimmy</i> Interesting that in Gary Taubes’ interview today in Michael Eades’s blog, he seems more emphatic about sugar being the biggest culprit in our diet. He says it’s the relative absence of sugar that is the main reason Asians do well on the high carb Asian diet. He said he left out of his book that sugar is the cause of gout. And he’s thinking about sugar as the subject of his next book.

That’s GREAT! I think the more voices of concern that are out there about the damaging impact of sugar and substances like HFCS, the better!

–Jimmy

]]> By: Andrew R http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/health-headlines-i-just-couldnt-avoid-november-17-2008/2968/comment-page-1#comment-12221 Andrew R Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:43:22 +0000 http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/?p=2968#comment-12221 Hey Jimmy, Thanks for the great links. I've got to play the devil's advocate here with regards to the HFCS part. If they do remove HFCS's from cola, what could they possibly put in there that would be any less damaging? I think that we as a society need to simply understand that soda, anyway you slice it, is bad for you. It's your choice what you do with that knowledge. The reason I view it that way occurs on behalf of all the recent uproar of HFCS and how it's the new "enemy". HFCS isn't the bad guy, SODA is the bad guy! Oh yeah, and here is a great article written by Scott over at Modern Forager that talks about HFCS. Check it out! http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/11/03/why-high-fructose-corn-syrup-is-worse-than-sugarand-why-its-not/ Thoughts? All the Best, Andrew R <i>No real argument from me, Andrew. I agree sugar is pretty bad for you, but moving from HFCS to pure sugar is a step in the right direction. Sure, getting people to stop drinking sugary soda altogether is ideal, but let's make baby steps on the way to that ultimate goal. GREAT DISCUSSION! --Jimmy</i> Hey Jimmy,

Thanks for the great links. I’ve got to play the devil’s advocate here with regards to the HFCS part. If they do remove HFCS’s from cola, what could they possibly put in there that would be any less damaging? I think that we as a society need to simply understand that soda, anyway you slice it, is bad for you. It’s your choice what you do with that knowledge. The reason I view it that way occurs on behalf of all the recent uproar of HFCS and how it’s the new “enemy”. HFCS isn’t the bad guy, SODA is the bad guy!

Oh yeah, and here is a great article written by Scott over at Modern Forager that talks about HFCS. Check it out!

http://www.modernforager.com/blog/2008/11/03/why-high-fructose-corn-syrup-is-worse-than-sugarand-why-its-not/

Thoughts?

All the Best,

Andrew R

No real argument from me, Andrew. I agree sugar is pretty bad for you, but moving from HFCS to pure sugar is a step in the right direction. Sure, getting people to stop drinking sugary soda altogether is ideal, but let’s make baby steps on the way to that ultimate goal. GREAT DISCUSSION!

–Jimmy

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