🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:25:59 -0500, Steve Wertz <swertz@texas.net>
wrote:

>JETman wrote:
>> 
>> Steve Wertz wrote:
>> >
>> > Felix wrote:
>> >
>> > > And, boy, aren't you showing them buy refilling it before leaving...
>> > > consider that a 12 ounce soda contains about 120 empty calories, drinking
>> > > two 32 ounce cups of soda gets you about 600 calories.  Yep, getting fat is
>> > > the best way to get your money's worth.  FYI, you'd have to walk or run 6
>> > > miles to burn off 600 calories (and that doesn't even touch the calories
>> > > from the quarter-pounder/Big Mac and SuperSize fries you ate with that.
>> >
>> > As you said, they're empty calories.  It's hard to get fat from drinking
>> > just soda.
>> >
>> > -sw
>> 
>> Uh, calories derived from high fructose corn syrups are empty???
>> 
>> From what I have learned... If one is predisposed to high tryglycerides,
>> corn syrup along with potatoes are high on the list of culprits...
>> 
>> Calories such as these are difficult for the body to process and usually
>> are stored as F-A-T.
>
>You can't have F-A-T without FAT.
>
>-sw


sure you can- its normal human physiology -

excess sugar that is in excess is shunted from from the normal
glycolytic pathway and instead of being turned into ATP for energy for
cellular metabolism it is converted to triglycerides (fat) via
transformation to acetate in the liver.

thats why all these "fat free" marketing ploys are completely bogus-
the food may not have any fat in it in your mouth, but by the time
those carbohydrates have been broken down in your stomach and small
bowel and absorbed and sent to the liver, if you don't need the
glucose for immediate energy or glycogen production, it goes down the
path of least resistance- fat production.



cheers


Lee S.

who knew that biochemistry would be good for something.