🚀 go-pugleaf

"Lee S." wrote:

> 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.

Amen Brother.  Now, pass me that two liter Coke, please.

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