margarete Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 This is an article about it today: http://www.drbriffa.com/2012/03/07/kelloggs-found-guilty-of-misleading-us-about-sugar-but-this-is-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Bourne Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Give us the low fat version please? (no pun intended) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Try telling people that refined sugar is an addictive substance and you generally get laughed at. I think it happens to be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suffragette1 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Excess sugar leads to weight gain. Not only are a lot of cereals high in sugar, lots of low fat foods which are marketed as healthier alternatives, are actually higher in sugar that their regular counterparts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margarete Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 The article is not just about the harm that Kellogg's highly sweetened products do. It is also, and mainly, about the corruption of science by Kellogg's cash sponsoring and influencing conclusions made by scientific experts. The World Health Organisation and one of the United Nations agencies are implicated in the corruption - agencies we would normally expect to be free of such coflicts of interest. I do urge forummers to read the article and not just home in on sugar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cgksheff Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 You could do better and actually read the source of the story, which is an adjudication by the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority): http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/2012/3/Kellogg-Marketing-and-Sales-Company-%28UK%29-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_172001.aspx Read it and you will see that Kellogs (who are villians) were cherry-picking quotes from old FAO Reports. More recent FAO & WHO Reports paint a different story. No Conspiracy ... Sorry! Just poor, biased blogging by DrBiffa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margarete Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 You could do better and actually read the source of the story, which is an adjudication by the ASA (Advertising Standards Authority): http://www.asa.org.uk/ASA-action/Adjudications/2012/3/Kellogg-Marketing-and-Sales-Company-%28UK%29-Ltd/SHP_ADJ_172001.aspx Read it and you will see that Kellogs (who are villians) were cherry-picking quotes from old FAO Reports. More recent FAO & WHO Reports paint a different story. No Conspiracy ... Sorry! Just poor, biased blogging by DrBiffa. Thanks, cgksheff. I'll try to read story sources in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadingNorth Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Excess sugar leads to weight gain. Not only are a lot of cereals high in sugar, lots of low fat foods which are marketed as healthier alternatives, are actually higher in sugar that their regular counterparts. Low fat is healthier on the cholesterol front; it doesn't have to be healthier on every front in order to be able to make that claim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
margarete Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 Low fat products also tend to be higher in salt than their regular counterparts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagel Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 I've become sensitive to sugar in food recently and find it disgusting in anything savoury. So many prepared sauces and foods contain unnecessary sugar, just check the label. I'm happy to eat sugar in its place and add it to my tea and coffee, but I wan't to choose when to eat it and not have it added by manufacturers. Example - soy sauce. So many brands contain sugar, why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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