Kinda what I thought... I mean... I'd always been under the impression that sugar by itself didn't really contribute to obeisity all that terribly much... As compared to grams of fat or possibly complex carbohydrates (I'm still on the fence re: low-carb diets, I'd like to think that there's just something fundamentally wrong with "conventional wisdom" largely because I'm not generally impressed with "conventional wisdom" because it's too convenient (see the book Freakonomics) but at the same time I'm just ... Atkins zealots (like most zealots) make me want to vomit all over them, which makes it difficult for me to give serious consideration to possibility of their rhetoric being more than propaganda.)
Am I the only person here who just gets sick when I see people all glombing on to the latest hot new fad like low-carb diets or <shudder> the web without doing the homework and really understanding (at least fundamentally) the garbage they're spouting? Problem is that seems to be mostly what mainstream culture(s) produce -- people spouting garbage not because they've researched it but because it's popular and therefore "conventional wisdom" (and apparently for most people conventional widsom == ABSOLUTE TRUTH HANDED DOWN BY GOD). Sorry for the rant... but that really I think is what pisses me off most -- people clinging to these BS ideas as though they're sacred writ that's gonna save their immortal soul from eternal damnation when in reality it's just some stupid, inane babble that some under-educated lemming happened to phrase in a catchy sound-byte-worthy way that made it popular. <sigh>... Forgive me, I'm having a moment. :) Zealots really piss me off. :) > Come on Larry, I call bullshit. > I'm skinny as hell, and I drink Mountain Dew (highest > average sugar and > caffeine content of a normal soda) by the case. Why am I > not fat and nasty? > Because I don't eat like crazy and I stay active. > -- > Tim Heald > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 703-300-3911 > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:24 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: FW: Soft Drinks may cause obesity > In other words that's the same set of arguments that big > tobacco has been > using for years. > larry > On 3/6/06, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 3/6/06, Larry C. Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > "I think that's laughable," said Richard Adamson, a >> > senior science >> > consultant to the American Beverage Association. Lack >> > of exercise >> > and poor eating habits are far bigger contributors to >> > America's >> > weight woes, he said. >> >> >> That's a hilarious quote. It's not the soft drinks, it's >> the poor >> eating habits....of consuming soft drinks. >> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:199058 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
