On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 at 16:41:44, Heywood Mogroot
wrote:

How many people know that 3500 kcal adds up to a lb of fat, and that
the corn syrup in cokes gets converted into bad fats by the liver? How
many people recognize that white bread is essentially equivalent to
cotton candy as far as sugar metabolism goes?

Thank goodness Coke in the rest of the world is sweetened with sugar!
Not ideal, but better than corn syrup. Yet sweetcorn itself is a
"dieter's friend", I find, as it passes through one virtually unchanged.
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