I've had the "they need sugar" conversation with Czechs here, who don't understand why I limit my son's intake.

This is beautiful work, though.

i have to agree with them on the point about artificial sweeteners being useless though - if your kid isn't overweight, i'd much rather give them the sugar than whatever toxic powder they're telling us is safe these days.

I'm still looking for proof that the SRF were heavily funded by the American Dental Association.

....sugar doesn't have what it takes?

It doesn't swing?

Well, I'm fucked.

As for the sugar v. whatever-artifical-brand-of-the-moment debate, I figure it's easier to jog off a couple of pounds than a brain tumor.

"Sugar Swings" is certainly an ironically accurate depiction of what is probably going to happen to poor Mary and all her sucrose-gobbling friends, once all that refined white sugar gets pumped into their bloodstreams at the rate of about 30 calories per minute.

Makes me wonder why the National Carbohydrate Council wasn't more on the ball back in those days.

Thus the bunhead diet was born!

...although I suppose honey and cigarettes is the more traditional form (maybe we could go back in time and honey and sugar could duke out which is the most natural energy burst).

Oh, honey would win, hands down. For most of recorded history honey has been THE sweeetener of choice - in fact, pretty much the ONLY choice until the late 15th Century or so, when the Spanish caught on to the East Indian method of extracting sugar from cane pulp.

What the FDA doesn't want you to see!

http://www.stevia.net/

In case you're tired of following the pro-pot lobby...

Now, THAT is logic that even a herd of 50's housewives could not trample down.

That is why I feed my babies maple syrup instead of milk... because I love them more than anything in this whole wide flat world.