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Yet we'll still have people saying that that 5% is just too much.
by bitxbitxbitcoin 8y ago
Yet we'll still have people saying that that 5% is just too much.
- ZeroGravitas 8y agoMaybe it is. Would be good to benchmark it against stuff other than the byword for self inflicted cancer. Is it as bad as coca cola? If so it should probably be discouraged.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 8y agoI would actually love to know if it's as bad as coca cola.
- verdverm 8y agoSugar generally?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 8y agoHigh-fructose corn syrup specifically.
- brianwawok 8y agoHFCS compared to Sugar or nothing? Americans clearly eat way too much Sugar or Sugar like substances. Even if best case HFCS is ruled as healthy as Sugar, it should still be drastically cut back / avoided.
- wahern 8y agoIs there any strong evidence that dietary HFCS is consequentially different than sugar? HFCS is 55%/45% fructose/glucose vs 50%/50% for cane sugar. That's a mere 5% difference, plus the fact that the gut doesn't need to cleave the fructose from the glucose using sucrase. But AFAIU the cleaving happens readily and rapidly. It wouldn't be shocking if HFCS was consequentially different, but it seems unlikely. HFCS just seems like a misleading distraction outside arguments about agricultural politics. Worse than a distraction, actually, because relying on flimsy and unnecessary arguments makes it easier for those defending the arguably excessive use of sugar in the food supply to inject FUD into the debate.
- Jonovono 8y agoE cigs are physically healthier than normal cigarettes but I still think they are worse for you.
- code_beers 8y agoWhat on Earth does that even mean?
- verdverm 8y agoIt means that there is a psychology component. That people who are addicts, nicotine or whatever, spend significant portions of mental energy focussed on the object of addiction.
- moftz 8y agoGreat thing about e-cigs is that you can wean yourself off the nicotine while still keeping the simulation of smoking. You can buy progressively lower nicotine concentrations until you feel comfortable with no nicotine. Once you don't have a physical addiction, giving up the e-cig entirely becomes easier. I used to smoke cigarettes and drink caffeine whenever I was staying up late to study. School got harder so more late nights meant I smoked more up to the point I was smoking during the day just to smoke. I switched to a vape with a high nicotine concentration instead. I found that I used it much more often, I could get a nicotine fix indoors but at least it wasn't a real cig. I started backing down the concentration and the use (mostly due to the public image of looking like a douchebag blowing huge clouds) and now I'm at the point where I only use the lowest concentration when I'm in the car alone. Nicotine addiction is barely on the radar for me anymore. Smoking really doesn't have that "volume knob" that vaping does. You can make that responsible choice of buying lower concentrations that isn't really possible when you buy a pack of cigs.
- moreoutput 8y agoIndeed, those people could be producing things for me.
- Jonovono 8y ago
- jdhn 8y agoThere will always be people who want to eliminate all risk, even if it's impossible to do so.