On 10/01/2014 11:39, Jim Hawkins wrote: ...
Government action is the last thing we need. By the time they get around to making legislation, a different set of nutritional theories will have taken over.
Colin Bignell
For "a different set of nutritional theories will have taken over" read '..the junk food/drink purveyors will have managed to squash the opposition to their inundation of our food and drink with sugar'. Government may work slowly, but sometimes we need it. And as regards sugar we have needed it to act for decades.
Jim Hawkins
There is no such thing as government money. Only taxpayers money. As a taxpayer, I don't want any action from the government, except to reduce taxes.
You would have to get rid of the bloody smokers first!
Much better with banana in them. Well buttered doorstep of nice bread, slices of banana, well sprinkled with sugar.
My mouth's watering.
*applause*
Yes, I remember that. Lard butties ...
As I recall the change came at the height of the AIDS epidemic and the story at the time was that they wanted to avoid the ambiguity of the slogan and/or perhaps avoid negative association with the disease.
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Add salt...
Jim K
But not a lot of good to blind buyers. I really don't understand why they put so much in. Brian
On Friday 10 January 2014 13:43 Brian Gaff wrote in uk.d-i-y:
I can recommend Ocado online shopping Brian.
Nearly everything lists the full ingredients online which at least gives your voice software a chance. Th enutitional summary is also there.
I like it because I can review everything easily as my kids are allergic to various things.
On Friday 10 January 2014 08:23 harryagain wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Yes -
It is still quite useful if you have a bad gut or actual flu - boosts the energy levels if eating anything more substantial is not possible.
On Friday 10 January 2014 08:38 The Medway Handyman wrote in uk.d-i-y:
And some versions are "isotonic" which I assume means they have some salts added if you are loosing a lot (sweating, puking).
And also available, slightly disturbingly, in a wide variety of "pop" flavours like cherry, melon and orange. The last bit is the one to worry about - when kids just grab it as a "drink".
On Friday 10 January 2014 11:26 Dave Liquorice wrote in uk.d-i-y:
I find the flavour comforting - but that's probably because I had it a lot when ill as a kid...
On Friday 10 January 2014 11:11 Scott M wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Exactly - I would rather my kids had normal jam rather than reduced sugar but loaded with brain cell destroying ADD inducing carcenogic crap like saccharin and aspartame.
No no, don't say "loosing", that conjures up quite nasty images. Try "losing" instead.
In Victorian times the food merchants reduced their production costs by adulterating foodstuffs with chalk, sand or whatever other substances. Today, sugar is so dirt cheap to the food/drink manufacturers that to them it serves exactly the same purpose.
Jim Hawkins
Strange sugar can be so cheap when it's such a concentrated energy source ? As a rule energy costs.
It's got a third of the energy per gramme of fat, and just under half the energy per gramme of ethanol.
It's mainly cheap because it's very easy to extract from the plant that makes it, and the plants that make it grow very quickly.
Sugar cane plantations can produce about a ton of refined sugar per hectare per year, with very little labour and external energy input, as the waste from extracting the juice is burnt to produce the heat used to refine the sugar.
that's another one on the "no, no" list ;-)
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