Comments on: sugar

By: Ole Laursen

Ole Laursen — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:34:36 +0000

Finally watched the video. You may want to read this critique before jumping to conclusions:

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/

By: Christopher Blizzard · and now a study on hfcs

Christopher Blizzard · and now a study on hfcs — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:04:12 +0000

[...] For the long story on how the body metabolizes fructose and glucose, see my previous post on Sugar. Once again, a long video, but worth the [...]

By: Food | snowing blizzards

Food | snowing blizzards — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:21:00 +0000

[...] my husband and I have been thinking a lot about food. He has done some posts here, here and here. While we were on vacation we read In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. While it is a [...]

By: Tomáš

Tomáš — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:53:58 +0000

I always knew drinking anything but water (and mlilk maybe) is not really a good idea, bu finally I know why (the juice was a surprise for me though).

The one thing I do not get though is whether fat is not bad or whether it is bad, but only as bad as sugar, the difference being everybody know fat is not good whereas sugar is GRAS.

By: Christopher Blizzard · artificial sweeteners

Christopher Blizzard · artificial sweeteners — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:41:15 +0000

[...] this is something that interests you I also strongly suggest watching the video in my post on sugar by Dr. Robert Lustig as well as the video of Michael Pollan speaking at the Long Now Foundation. [...]

By: Tutor

Tutor — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:58:44 +0000

Thanks for the heads up!
This is serious. I informed my familiy and friends.

By: Christopher Blizzard

Christopher Blizzard — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:16:45 +0000

It’s nice that it’s got a CC license so it was OK to transcode.

But yeah, been reading about food a lot recently. I’ll post about that soon. (Read some books while I was on vacation!)

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:29:33 +0000

The instinct to shy away from processed foods is spot on. Always suspected it, but this is a good bunch of evidence to back it up.

On a different note, it’s amazing to see this in a free/open format. It looks damn good; the only issue I had was some de-syncing of the video and audio after it played for ~25+ minutes.

By: Steven Garrity

Steven Garrity — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:33:53 +0000

You totally ruined Christmas by sharing this.

By: Verdi

Verdi — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:07:35 +0000

Wow. That was a really interesting talk. Also, I’m now scared of all the food in my house.