Sugar frosted stakes
Boy, I'll tell you what, you just can't pull one over on the medical mainstream.
It's like they've got some kind of sixth sense or something, I swear. They're like Woodward and Bernstein on the Watergate case, always a step ahead of the big health stories facing us. I mean, I just can't do it justice with my own words how incredibly prophetic establishment medicine is…
So I'll let the headline from a recent Associated Press story explain just how profound their powers of precognition are. Brace yourselves:
REPORT SAYS SUGARY DRINKS PILE ON POUNDS
Well, gol-durned and tarnation, it would never have occurred to a rube country doc like me that guzzling gallons of pure sugar-water like Coca-Cola, Kool-aid, Hawaiian Punch, and Sunny Delight every month might contribute to person's waistline. What would we do without the establishment and their wonderful studies to show us the harm in such innocuous substances?
But in typical mainstream fashion, they were doing the responsible thing and waiting for all the evidence to come in. I guess the 100 million fatties all trundling around with bottles of Coke in their hands wasn't enough of a clue…
According to the AP story, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health have analyzed data from 40 years' worth of scientifically rigorous nutrition studies, publishing the results in a recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Among their conclusions: - That just a single extra can of soda a day can add as much as 15 pounds a year to the average American's body weight
- Trends in soft-drink advertising and consumption have coincided precisely with the rise in American obesity
- The high fructose corn syrup (you've heard me talk about how awful this stuff is before) in just one 12-ounce serving of soda is equal to more than 10 teaspoons of table sugar
Of course, the American Beverage Association is claiming that the new analysis has overlooked some studies they're familiar with that would have called a link between sugary drinks and obesity into question. |
