Truly, a unique set of articles for this week:
- A long feature by Stephen K. Ritter on sugar and sugar substitutes, including Bob Lustig thundering away at sugar. Happily, some of Lustig's more controversial theories about carbohydrate chemistry are not present.
- I'd love to know if we're going to have taxation of sugared drinks and the like; if they start raising the price of ice cream, I'm gonna be unhappy.
- This article by Albert Censullo on the mole and the kilogram (including a quiz) were interesting and rather confusing for me, as a dumb organic chemist.
- NSF deputy director decided to go to graduate school in theology -- truly the #altchemjobs-est of #altchemjobs. (article by Andrea Widener)
- I found this letter to the editor on fracking additives to be quite educational.
I hate Food Nazis. If I wanted their opinions, I would beat it out of them.
ReplyDeleteFree fructose is an appetite stimulant, sucrose is actually a weak appetite suppressant. (Our grandmas who lived through WWII were concerned about kids getting their proper nutrition. They were saying: don't eat the cake before the lunch or you will be full before the main course.)
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