re: #492 Killgore Trout

Bread isn’t really a problem. Even pasta isn’t really a problem. Carbs get a bad rap because when combined with a high sugar diet the calories get stored as fat. drinking soda all day (even with artificial sweeteners) is more of a problem. Also all the processed food is loaded with sugar. I would say sugar, fructose, sucrose etc is probably to biggest problem.

There have been new TV ads promoting fructose. It has all the nuance of Merchants of Doubt. I have not spent the time to look into it but fructose has issues: our body does not know how much sugar it is taking in when we consume fructose, so we keep consuming it. Now that some people are figuring out how this is not a good thing, we have these commercials saying how wonderful fructose is because ‘it’s natural, made from corn.’