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Re: Drink Ripoffs

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From: Tracey
Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 05:40
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Steve Wertz 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

Sorry, but thats not true.  Your body converts calories to fat when they are not used
for energy.  Too many caloies means you begin to store away those extras.

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