Cupcake Ban

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Cupcake Ban
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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.
 
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Registered: 06-27-1998
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 11:22am

<<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?


PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 11:23am

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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Registered: 10-17-2003
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 11:24am
My OJ at home (the juice not the former football star) says "juice from concentrate" and there is no HFCS in it.
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Registered: 10-17-2003
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 11:25am
You didn't say they were all juice but you did use them as examples in a reply to someone asking you what kind of juice you buy.
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Registered: 10-17-2003
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 11:26am
According to my recent additon of Family Circle and whatever study they were quoting, HFCS can make you hungrier.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 11:29am
I think OJ is the exception (again the juice not the football player...)...I was thinking more of the long line of apple and cranberry concoctions that line the "juice" aisle.

 

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Registered: 03-27-2000
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 11:42am
She has said before that she has high blood pressure.
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Registered: 03-27-2000
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 11:48am
Why did you go on Weight Watchers if you were not overweight?
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Registered: 01-15-2006
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 12:05pm

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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Registered: 01-15-2006
In reply to: cmamanda
Thu, 09-20-2007 - 12:12pm
my mom was very much into ww and overweight (she attended the meetings,whatnot).......but not all women were there to lose weight.

 

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