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Cane Sugar Vs Fructose "Sugar"

I just saw on TV an ad about how fructose sugar was the same as cane sugar and did some little research of my own, with so many points of view on the internet and trying to focus on the facts is a little hard nowadays. But this ad immediately made me laugh as the woman spoke and said: "Sugar is sugar and your body can't tell the difference" Corn based high fructose syrup is indeed made from corn, but hardly ends there, it has to be processed artificially in order to add or change it to a flavor similar to sugar. Link Sugar is made from, well, you guessed it right, sugar cane and the very process uses just water and heat. If sugar is sugar and our bodies cannot tell the difference then one wonders why we are not cooking with engine oil, after all oil is oil right? To put it simple, the human body is a machine, feed it bad fuel, and it breaks down rapidly or worse it malfunctions, artificial foods are not natural, and therefore they do not help the body. You want another sa

e-contagious?

Here's some food for thought... It is well known and widely accepted that to stay healthy and avoid getting sick one has to avoid being around sick people, yet at the same time every little sickness we get like flu, cold, cough, etc. Makes us a little stronger and impervious to a similar strain of the sickness we recovered from. But what about being infected through the internet? Sounds crazy... right? I mean, that would be like saying people can get sick for watching tv, watching the news, hearing the weather report or news about some sick people on the other side of the world... Yeah... crazy talk... But let me put it this way... Every time, every hour, every day we spend on the internet we are usually in contact with people in real time in other parts of the country or the world, keyword here being 'contact'. How often do we hear those people on the other side of the world are sick with something as simple as a flu or cold, and we are also at the same time sick, we were