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Sugar 


Sure sure, I'll post a picture of my hair once I have one. As for art (though I use that term loosely here) I can only post my digital work at the moment since I'm without scanner. And since I don't like to post old stuff it'll have to wait until I have something new. Maybe by next weekend if I get PS tomorrow.
Now what I wanted to mention today was that I read in todays paper that we swedes drink in average (!!) two liters of soda (or whatever you like to call a sugar rich carbonated drink) per week and person. Now this might not sound too worrying until you start thinking about how much sugar that really is. Half a liter of soda typically contains 65 grams of sugar. This is roughly the same as the amount a growing boy of 15 to 18 years should at most consume in a day, so that'd be the maximum sugar intake for four of the week's seven days just from the soda. Also I'd like to point out that the average swede is definitely not a boy between 15 and 18 (a girl of the same age shouldn't eat more than about 50-55 g of sugar per day), so for the average person it's probably more like five or six days' sugar intake. On top of that I'm prepared to wager that a person with weak enough character not to limit his intake of soda will also not stop and think about other sources of sugar like candy, cookies, marmelade, ice cream, juice... This is really the first time that the warnings about bad eating habits that have come so frequently the last few years have registered with me. I suppose I'm enough of a geek that I have to see it in numbers to get it. Soon, it seems, the average person will be both fat and suffer from diabetes.

Comments:
A population of fat diabetics eh? We don't know any countries like that...certainly not America. We're not fat, we're just big-boned!

-- Norm
 
Hmm, Norm beat me to it. Maybe its just an inevitable result of being a developed nation. Esh, I hope this doesn't mean your going to go off starting wars in the middle of nowhere now.
 
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