You think you're tough? Try giving up soda for the summer - Boston dares you

i say we retire this one. its old and its not funny anymore. they kill it on sports radio.

hold on, my mom just yelled down........

whiskey = processed beer

No, that's not a euphemism. Minds out of the gutters.

Most food banks take donations of frozen meat (chicken, TV dinners, meat pizzas...) from food companies (like Tyson's who does a lot of charity donation) and supermarkets (like the Meat the Need program in CT). They hand them out along with the more long-lasting food donations that they ask from others like you and I.

This year has marked the first time that Rhea, who has worked at the depot 26 years, has experienced a meat shortage, and food pantries across the state are dealing with a similar problem.

So, normally, protein is not an issue for people living from food banks, but it has become a slightly acute problem this year for the first time in over 2 decades in some places (I found similar articles from other papers across the country all dated in the past 2-3 months).

The problem is not the difference between fructose and glucose (both basic sugars), but between HFCS and sucrose. Sucrose is a fructose bonded to a glucose which is quickly broken apart in the acidic environment of your stomach...so in essence, no different than having eaten a single fructose and single glucose molecule separately. HFCS is corn syrup (100% glucose) that has been processed with enzymes that convert a percentage of the glucose into fructose. For sodas, it's about 55% fructose and 45% glucose. This is bascially no different than sucrose except that you are ingesting the sugars as two separate molecules instead of as a single molecule which falls apart quickly in your stomach. The 5% difference is pretty meaningless compared to everything you eat.

Yes, fructose is metabolized into tryglycerides in the liver and glucose is metabolized in nearly every cell in the body instead. But the problem isn't that High Fructose Corn Syrup isn't "high in fructose" compared to alternatives like sucrose (table sugar)...the name comes from having more fructose (55%) than in regular corn syrup (0% fructose)...the problem is that we eat way too much sugar of ANY form in today's diet because of how incessantly companies add sugar to make it "tastier".

It's sugar consumption volume that's the problem, not that it's HFCS.

There's nothing about the isotopic difference in C-13 and C-12 carbon atoms (i.e. the extra neutron in the nucleus) that makes the food somehow suddenly unhealthy. Both are stable, naturally occurring isotopes of carbon.

Now, if you eat a diet of straight junk food sweetened with HFCS and deep-fried in unhealthy vegetable oils...then you're going to be unhealthy AND have a higher ratio of C-13/C-12 than someone who eats a more soy/rice-based diet (two plants that do not preferentially use C-13). That is correlation NOT causation.