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[–] Just_Pizza_Crust@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the intended result of dairy industry lobbying. Pizza is a vegetable and added sugar is healthy.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delicious nutritious processed sugar! That's right this highly refined white powder that can't be found in nature is the healthiest thing you can eat! Buy it by the 5 pound bag and put it in everything. Put it in your morning coffee, your morning pancake, cover your morning bacon in it, and don't forget to dip that apple you eat every day in caramel! Make sure your lunch is covered in ketchup, which is also loaded with sugar for your convenience. Go ahead and have that milk shake too!

[–] olicvb@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

can’t be found in nature

well there's sugarcane, which google tells me is practically the same (so just as bad -.-)

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: most white sugar in the US comes from sugar beets. Easier to produce and process, I guess.

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What's so bad about corn syrup? It's natural. Corn's a fruit. Syrup comes from a bush.

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It’s particularly high fructose corn syrup that’s real bad. I forget the specifics but the balance of fructose to sucrose is important to how our body processes it.

Oh, and the rest of the nutrients in fruit help slow the digestion of the sugars and mitigate some of the bad effects. But if you extract the sugar, it’s not so healthy for you anymore.

[–] jscummy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

If sugars bad for you, how come Jesus made it taste so good?

[–] Jack_of_all_derps@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And it makes the sunset really pink, because of the air pollution! But the the main question is, is it worth it?

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Well it's really hard to run tap lines from each corn cob especially when they just come and mow them down every year.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, thanks to all that marketing people even still think that milk is good for you (lol), even chocolate milk (rotflmao). Absurd. It's too bad that market forces have so much influence over everything, including notions about what constitutes health.