{"id":154,"date":"2013-02-20T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/20\/scientists-compare-soda-to-a-ruthlessly-efficient-bioweapon\/"},"modified":"2013-02-20T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:30:00","slug":"scientists-compare-soda-to-a-ruthlessly-efficient-bioweapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/20\/scientists-compare-soda-to-a-ruthlessly-efficient-bioweapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists compare soda to a \u2018ruthlessly efficient bioweapon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists compare soda to a \u2018ruthlessly efficient bioweapon\u2019<\/a>:
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The health advocacy organization Center for Science in the Public Interest is petitioning the FDA to limit the amount of sugar in soft drinks\u00a0\u201dto safe levels consistent with\u00a0authoritative\u00a0recommendations.\u201d Its position<\/a> is that the quantity of sugar manufacturers put in soft drinks has become so large that it\u2019s basically poisoning people.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs currently formulated, Coke, Pepsi, and other sugar-based drinks are unsafe for regular human consumption,\u201d said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson.\u00a0 \u201cLike a slow-acting but ruthlessly efficient bioweapon, sugar drinks cause obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.\u00a0 The FDA should require the beverage industry to re-engineer their sugary products over several years, making them safer for people to consume, and less conducive to disease.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, that sounds extreme when you first read it (and if you\u2019ve seen statements by the CSPI before you\u2019ll notice they like to use a little shock value to draw attention to health issues). However, their point is actually a valid one. As Yale\u2019s Dr. David Katz has pointed out<\/a>, sugar is one of many substance where the \u201cdose makes the poison.\u201d<\/p>\n

The notion that sugar is a \u201cpoison\u201d was established when a\u00a0lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig<\/a>\u00a0espousing that view went viral.
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While the construction of alarming tables and figures demonstrating the calamitous effects of sugar (and specifically, fructose \u2014 Dr. Lustig\u2019s particular nemesis) can be defended with legitimate science, it is nonetheless something of a distortion. Even more calamitous pathways could be mapped out for oxygen, which in excess is not just highly toxic, but lethal in rather short order. Oxygen, per se, is not poison of course.\u00a0The dose makes the poison.
So, too, for sugar \u2014 including fructose. Our excessive consumption of it is the poison.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically what Katz and the CSPI are saying is that a modest amount of sugar isn\u2019t going to harm anyone, but many people are currently eating (or drinking) way too much of it. The CSPI illustrates this by pointing out that while the\u00a0American Heart Association recommends that women take in no more than 6 grams of added sugar a day and men no more than 9 grams, one\u00a0sweetened 20-ounce soda contains 15 grams of sugar, far more than either recommendation. And that\u2019s causing all sorts of health problems.
The bottom line for Weighthackers is that, because food companies are loading up their products with sugar so they can sell more of them and not because they\u2019re good for you, it\u2019s up to you to be aware of what\u2019s in the things you\u2019re eating and drinking. If you like soda, consider getting something like a Sodastream<\/a>\"\"\u00a0so you, not Coke or Pepsi, can decide what goes in your drink. That way you can keep your sugar intake under bioweapon levels.
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Scientists compare soda to a \u2018ruthlessly efficient bioweapon\u2019: The health advocacy organization Center for Science in the Public Interest is petitioning the FDA to limit the amount of sugar in soft drinks\u00a0\u201dto safe levels consistent with\u00a0authoritative\u00a0recommendations.\u201d Its position is that the quantity of sugar manufacturers put in soft drinks has become so large that it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-2u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}