In your piece on the evils of sugar in the Daily Mail you write
The damage done mirrors the effects of drinking too much alcohol – which the scientists point out is made from distilling sugar.Clearly you haven't got the first fucking clue about how alcohol is produced. If I were you I'd do a little research before allowing my name to be associated with such utter bollocks.
For your reference alcohol is a by-product of yeast respiration in anaerobic or low oxygen conditions. Yeasts convert the sugars to alcohol, CO2, and energy on the mitochondria within the cell structure.
Maybe you should take the time to verify the other claims made by the anti-sugar nutcases before regurgitating them as this one is provably incorrect?
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manwiddicombe
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I fear that you may be flogging a dead horse here. Tabloid journalists gave up caring whether anything that they write is true or not a very long time ago.
Still, bloggers are doing the world a very great service by pointing out every single time that they print known falsehoods, not only by correcting that particular falsehood, but also by continuously undermining their credibility, what little they have left.
I don't really follow UK papers, so I cannot comment on the IQ level of this journalist... but, this morning, I did read the 'scientific article' she is referencing (not the study - the article).
It is in no way scientific and it is riddled with intentional misdirections bordering on direct lies that left me feeling very angry that this passes for a 'scientific article'.
The article includes (but is not limited to) intentionally blurring the lines between high-fructose corn syrup, sucrose from cane and beets and unprocessed (by humans) sugar sources like honey. It is a vile piece of propaganda and anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together ought to have realized it...
And, yes - the article does try to make claims that 'sugar' is 'just like alcohol' in its efects on our brains and bodies.
Sad...
Instead of providing platform for junk (food) science (forgive the pun), journalists ought to be trumpeting the good bits of actual science, like the plastic-eating fungus that Yale scientists have identified, or the fact that scientists have managed to 'stress-evolve' a multicellular life form from monocellular yeast - in just 2 months, and so on.
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