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Cupcake Ban
| Tue, 09-18-2007 - 3:36pm |
In an effort to make food in schools healthier, some school districts have actually banned cupcakes at school birthday celebrations.
| Tue, 09-18-2007 - 3:36pm |
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<<I guess I am not overly concerned because I go to my cardiologist twice a year and I go every 3 months for my blood pressure.>>
I asked earlier but I didn't see an answer, if you are healthy why a cardiologist twice a year?
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But it doesn't.
I looked up Coke Classic which seems a pretty representative soda. It's 12oz bottles 39g sugar.
Capri Sun Pacific Cooler 6.75 has 29g of sugar.
But look at the volumes. The Coke Classic is almost double the volume of the Capri Sun. Yet it has only 10 more grams of sugar for this nearly double volume.
If you compare grams of sugar per ounce, Coke Classic has 3.25g of sugar per oz while Capri Sun Pacific Cooler has 4.29g of sugar per oz.
This puts Coke on par with Juicy Juice Apple which has slightly more sugar at 3.5g/oz than Coke. But it's still the better health value since Coke (and Capri Sun!) are both made with HFCS which apparently does more damage than either fructose or sucrose alone (campbell linked an article elswhere that explains the metabolism in great detail).
Capri Sun squeaks ahead of Coke Classic healthwise because it does actually have some juice in it and juice as such has healthful elements in it, many of which don't make it to nutrition labels. But if you are going on the presumption of half the sugar, it doesn't. Remember that grams of sugar are a meaningful comparison only when you are comparing equal volumes.
Figures for Coke Classic, Capri Sun Pacific Cooler and Juicy Juice Apple taken from www.peapod.com
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ot about oj the superstar..the running joke after his 1994 acquittal was,have you hear the latest news about oj?
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