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The World Health Organisation, in opening a [url=http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2014/consultation-sugar-guideline/en/]public consultation on draft sugars guideline[/url], wrote: WHO’s current recommendation, from 2002, is that sugars should make up less than 10% of total energy intake per day. The new draft guideline also proposes that sugars should be less than 10% of total energy intake per day. It further suggests that a reduction to below 5% of total energy intake per day would have additional benefits. Five per cent of total energy intake is equivalent to around 25 grams (around 6 teaspoons) of sugar per day for an adult of normal Body Mass Index (BMI).

The suggested limits on intake of sugars in the draft guideline apply to all monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose or table sugar) that are added to food by the manufacturer, the cook or the consumer, as well as sugars that are naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit concentrates.

Much of the sugars consumed today are “hidden” in processed foods that are not usually seen as sweets. For example, 1 tablespoon of ketchup contains around 4 grams (around 1 teaspoon) of sugars. A single can of sugar-sweetened soda contains up to 40 grams (around 10 teaspoons) of sugar.

The draft guideline was formulated based on analyses of all published scientific studies on the consumption of sugars and how that relates to excess weight gain and tooth decay in adults and children.

jdaw1 wrote:

The World Health Organisation, in opening a [url=http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2014/consultation-sugar-guideline/en/]public consultation on draft sugars guideline[/url], wrote: WHO’s current recommendation, from 2002, is that sugars should make up less than 10% of total energy intake per day. The new draft guideline also proposes that sugars should be less than 10% of total energy intake per day. It further suggests that a reduction to below 5% of total energy intake per day would have additional benefits. Five per cent of total energy intake is equivalent to around 25 grams (around 6 teaspoons) of sugar per day for an adult of normal Body Mass Index (BMI).

The suggested limits on intake of sugars in the draft guideline apply to all monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose or table sugar) that are added to food by the manufacturer, the cook or the consumer, as well as sugars that are naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit concentrates.

Much of the sugars consumed today are “hidden” in processed foods that are not usually seen as sweets. For example, 1 tablespoon of ketchup contains around 4 grams (around 1 teaspoon) of sugars. A single can of sugar-sweetened soda contains up to 40 grams (around 10 teaspoons) of sugar.

The draft guideline was formulated based on analyses of all published scientific studies on the consumption of sugars and how that relates to excess weight gain and tooth decay in adults and children.

Presumably the WHO acknowledges that the sugar in ketchup is neutralised by the salt in chips. Though my quick skim-through failed to find that bit.

Glenn E. wrote:Alcohol and sugar

jdaw1 wrote:

Glenn E. wrote:Alcohol and sugar

Oh, you think that they are two terrible extremes, never to be had in isolation without being neutralised by the other (or by salt, of course)? That works for me.

Wikipedia wrote:Jeanne Louise Calment … 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997)… was a French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human lifespan in history, living to the age of 122 years, 164 days.
…
Calment smoked from the age of 21 (1896) to 117 (1992), … though according to an unspecified source, she smoked no more than two cigarettes per day towards the end of her life. …

Calment ascribed her longevity and relatively youthful appearance for her age to a diet rich in olive oil, and rubbed onto her skin, as well as a diet of port wine, and ate nearly one kilogram (2.2 lb) of chocolate every week. Calment reportedly remained mentally intact until her very end.

George Robertson, in his book [i]Port[/i] wrote:

djewesbury wrote:

George Robertson, in his book [i]Port[/i] wrote:

CaliforniaBrad wrote: Man, I've been putting the wrong things on my resume!


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jdaw1 wrote:I have discovered that PX is much worse for a type-I diabetic than is Port. It raises my sugar massively more than does VP. Perhaps it has a different type of sugar.

Wine Folly, in an article entitled [url=http://winefolly.com/update/does-wine-make-you-fat/]Does Wine Make You Fat?[/url], wrote:How to stay healthy and drink wine

• Eat protein before you drink

Have some quality protein before you drink. Long sustaining energy calories will help curb your craving while you drink.

Wine Folly, in an article entitled [url=http://winefolly.com/update/does-wine-make-you-fat/]Does Wine Make You Fat?[/url], wrote:• Stick to moderate drinking

Unfortunately, a bottle of wine is not a single serving. It’s important to understand your own limits. If you’re 140 pounds or under, you should stick to just one drink and only 2 if you’re over that weight.

Glenn E. wrote:I like vegetables. They are what food eats.

The BBC, in an article entitled [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-28797106]How safe is eating meat?[/url], wrote:• Professor Sir David Speigelhalter of Cambridge University says another way of looking at this is, if the studies are right, that you would expect someone who eats a bacon sandwich every day to live, on average, two years less than someone who does not.

• Pro rata, this is like losing an hour of your life for every bacon sandwich you eat. To put this into context, every time you smoke 20 cigarettes, this will take about five hours off your life.

jdaw1 wrote:news based on facts.

jdaw1 wrote:There are two theories about the BBC. One theory says that the BBC is an excellent and neutral source of news based on facts. Another theory says that it is full of tofu-eating communist feminist traitors.

DRT wrote:I am firmly in camp two. They should all be made to eat bacon rolls.

jdaw1 wrote:Great news about Sainsbury’s own-brand Madeira (which is excellent value):


If drunk from a glass, zero calories. Fantastic diet drink.

Pacific Standard wrote:The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy

Glenn E. wrote:

Pacific Standard wrote:The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy

I make no claims about the veracity, as I have never heard of this magazine before.

An epidemiologist of my acquaintance (my father) wrote:Many years ago I came across a most interesting article regarding the cause of death of drunks who had died on the streets of Moscow. The Soviet GRU picked them up and sent the corpses to the local mortuary where they were all post-mortemed.

Of course, they had all died of hypothermia — ‘stiffs’ in the real sense of the word — but every one had totally clean coronary arteries, like ‘those of babies’ was the comment. The conclusion was that vodka was the cause of the clean coronary arteries, but also the cause of falling over dead drunk in the street and dying of cold in the freezing Russian Winter.

Conclusion: drink vodka regularly for coronary artery health.

jdaw1 wrote:

Glenn E. wrote:

Pacific Standard wrote:The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy

I make no claims about the veracity, as I have never heard of this magazine before.

An epidemiologist of my acquaintance (my father) wrote:Many years ago I came across a most interesting article regarding the cause of death of drunks who had died on the streets of Moscow. The Soviet GRU picked them up and sent the corpses to the local mortuary where they were all post-mortemed.

Of course, they had all died of hypothermia — ‘stiffs’ in the real sense of the word — but every one had totally clean coronary arteries, like ‘those of babies’ was the comment. The conclusion was that vodka was the cause of the clean coronary arteries, but also the cause of falling over dead drunk in the street and dying of cold in the freezing Russian Winter.

Conclusion: drink vodka regularly for coronary artery health.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=81749#p81749]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:

AW77 wrote:I wonder what your neighbours thought when they watched the unloading of the pallet from behind their curtains.

What they thought was, "that weird English bloke is planning to drink himself to death".

jdaw1 wrote:

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=81749#p81749]Here[/url] djewesbury wrote:

AW77 wrote:I wonder what your neighbours thought when they watched the unloading of the pallet from behind their curtains.

What they thought was, "that weird English bloke is planning to drink himself to death".

Would that thought have been wrong?

Port, from the Duro valley, is without doubt the most
celebrated of the wines of this Atlantic country. It
made from black grapes, and its colour varies between
ruby red and burnt topaz. From a medical point
view, it is to be reserved for patients convalescing for
serious illness, or suffering from low blood pressure.

JacobH wrote:A favourite book of my grandfather was Dr E A Maker's Wine is the Best Medicine.

JacobH wrote:Apologies: autocorrected by my ’phone. It is Dr E A Maury.

The Daily Telegraph, an an article entitled [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11136111/New-drug-for-mild-alcoholics-drinking-two-glasses-of-wine-a-night.html]New drug for 'mild alcoholics' drinking two glasses of wine a night[/url], wrote:Hundreds of thousands of people drinking half a bottle of wine a night are to be put on the first ever drug to help reduce alcohol consumption, under plans announced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.

Men drinking three pints of beer and women drinking two large glasses of wine per night and who do not cut down within two weeks should be prescribed a new drug, Nice has said.

There are an estimated 750,000 people in the UK who would be eligible for nalmefene who show no overt symptoms associated with their drinking.

The plans mean GPs will actively ask patients about their alcohol consumption even when they see them for unrelated health matters such as low mood, inability to sleep, diabetes and high blood pressure.

The drug, which costs £3 per tablet, is taken when people feel the urge to have a drink and stops them from wanting more than one.

The plans will cost £288m per year and it is estimated to save 1,854 lives over five years and prevent 43,074 alcohol-related diseases and injuries over the same period.

jdaw1 wrote:It is tempting to quote the tennis player John McEnroe.

djewesbury wrote:I heard this on the Today programme and spat out my claret in the shower.

DRT wrote:I listened to an hour of this drivel on Radio 4 today.

The BBC, in an article entitled [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29616418]Michael Mosley: Should people be eating more fat?[/url], wrote:Contrary to conventional advice, eating more of some fats may be good for our health, says Michael Mosley.

It really is the sort of news that made me want to weep into my skinny cappuccino and then pour it down the sink. After years of being told, and telling others, that saturated fat clogs your arteries and makes you fat, there is now mounting evidence that eating some saturated fats may actually help you lose weight and be good for the heart.

Earlier this year, for example, a systematic review, funded by the British Heart Foundation and with the rather dry title "Association of dietary, circulating and supplement fatty acids with coronary risk" caused a stir.

Scientists from Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard, amongst others, examined the links between eating saturated fat and heart disease. Despite looking at the results of nearly 80 studies involving more than a half million people they were unable to find convincing evidence that eating saturated fats leads to greater risk of heart disease.

In fact, when they looked at blood results, they found that higher levels of some saturated fats, in particular a type of saturated fat you get in milk and dairy products called margaric acid, were associated with a lower risk of heart disease.

Although there were critics, NHS Choices described this as "an impressively detailed and extensive piece of research, which is likely to prompt further study".

Some academics queried the paper, others worried that this sort of research would confuse people and the message they would get would not be "it's OK to eat more of some forms of fat" but that "it's OK to eat lots more saturated fat, even if it is in pies". We know that current levels of obesity have been fuelled, at least in part, by snacks like muffins, crisps and cakes, all high in fat, sugar and calories.

The BBC, in an article entitled [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29821860]Alcohol calorie content: Labels needed, says RSPH[/url], wrote:Alcohol should have a calorie content label in order to reduce obesity, according to public health doctors.

The doctors warn a large glass of wine can contain around 200 calories - the same as a doughnut.

Yet the Royal Society for Public Health says the vast majority of people are blissfully unaware.

jdaw1 wrote:

The BBC, in an article entitled [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29821860]Alcohol calorie content: Labels needed, says RSPH[/url], wrote:The doctors warn a large glass of wine can contain around 200 calories - the same as a doughnut.

DRT wrote:I am willing to bet that people who drink six glasses of wine in one sitting are, on average, thinner than those who prefer to eat six doughnuts.