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Default What people eat around the world....

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Dan Abel > wrote:

> In article >,
> notbob > wrote:
>
> > On 2010-07-03, Goomba > wrote:
> >
> > > abundance of fresh produce but wayyyyyyy too much Coca-Cola back there.
> > > The kids are chunky too. I wonder if that is the reason?

> >
> > It's starting to look like there's a definite link between overweight
> > ppl and HFCS-loaded sodas. In a recent food exposé I watched, a NY
> > cabbie claimed he lost 30lbs by merely ceasing the consumption of
> > Coke, which he admitted he been virtually addicted to. While I
> > haven't really lost any weight, I've found it surprisingly easy to not
> > GAIN any weight since I cut sodas from my diet. I'm starting to look
> > for HFCS-containing foods and eliminate those, too.

>
> But other countries don't use HFCS to sweeten their sodas. And for
> every container of soda I've seen, the sugar content is the same,
> whether HFCS or sucrose.


But the two sugars are not processed the same by your body Dan.
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