[Grovenet] What happened to Dairy Queen?

[Ed Davie]

See what you think of this?

http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com/factvsfiction/index.html

Ed
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carol Morgan
  To: Forest Grove local interests list
  Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:49 PM
  Subject: Re: [Grovenet] What happened to Dairy 
Queen?


  Sorry, there was I think some connection between 
ice cream that DQ served and sugar content and it 
went from there.  I thought about replacing the 
subject line but didn't want to presume.

  If it seems I have a lot of opinions on this, it 
is true, I have had a bit of an issue with the 
whole 'bitterness' (pun intended) about artifical 
sweetening, given the idea was to replace 
something that we KNOW is not that good for us.  I 
have always felt that the automatic prejudice 
against anything artificial that serves such a 
high profile function as tasting good (we all tend 
to be a bit Puritanical about something) has 
limited the number and quality of options on the 
market, and perhaps, ironically, their health 
consequences.

  If we knew that a particular artifical sweetener 
had no ill effects (and no food additive has been 
more extensively studied) it should be used 
automatically instead of sugar in all products, 
not just in one token flavor of soda at a 
restaraunt.  Sugar has harmful secondary effects 
and now tertiary effects of widespread obesity and 
diabetes that cost the health care system 
millions. But it probably never will be widely 
incorporated, due to this spectre.

  I think it has something to do with devil we 
know vs. devil we don't. People tend to be much 
more worried about things that are sprayed on 
vegetables than the ones they spray on their own 
heads and underarms.  Just like my grandma ranted 
about the tv hurting my eyes and the microwave 
causing cancer, new substances are evaluated much 
more suspiciously than the ones in our pantries 
and refrigerators that we know are causing major 
problems.

  If I post again, though, I might change the 
subject line if someone doesn't do it first.


  ------ Original Message ------ 
  Received: 07:20 PM PST, 11/07/2007
  From: JJSAW at aol.com
  To: grovenet at rdrop.com
  Subject: Re: [Grovenet] What happened to Dairy 
Queen?



  In a message dated 11/7/2007 2:47:33 P.M. 
Pacific Standard Time,
  camorgan at stanfordalumni.org writes:

  I read some of these entire messages, and I have 
no idea what the heck they
  have to do with Dairy Queen.






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