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Re: Crockett Sugar Refinery on Shorpy
Author: WAF
Date: 12-12-2013 - 14:22
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> Ironically, it has turned out that fructose (corn
> syrup) is /the/ main culprit in the obesity
> epidemic because the human metabolic system isn't
> equipped to metabolize it -- it turns it into fat.
> Sugar isn't exactly innocent, but unless you
> become excessive in the amounts you consume, it's
> nowhere near the same problem.
Dr Zarkoff, you are SO right about that. Think about it. High fructose came into wide use after 1980. How many fat people did you see at the airport before then. Nothing like you do today. 4 calories per teaspoon is what the beet and cane sugar industry always said. Only reason bottlers and canners went to high fructose was it was cheap to buy and you didn't have to melt the sugar.
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> Ironically, it has turned out that fructose (corn
> syrup) is /the/ main culprit in the obesity
> epidemic because the human metabolic system isn't
> equipped to metabolize it -- it turns it into fat.
> Sugar isn't exactly innocent, but unless you
> become excessive in the amounts you consume, it's
> nowhere near the same problem.
Dr Zarkoff, you are SO right about that. Think about it. High fructose came into wide use after 1980. How many fat people did you see at the airport before then. Nothing like you do today. 4 calories per teaspoon is what the beet and cane sugar industry always said. Only reason bottlers and canners went to high fructose was it was cheap to buy and you didn't have to melt the sugar.
